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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-20633: Double Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-20633: Double Free

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/25/2020
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

GNU patch through 2.7.6 contains a free(p_line[p_end]) Double Free vulnerability in the function another_hunk in pch.c that can cause a denial of service via a crafted patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-6952.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-patch

References

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