vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-6951)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 13, 2018 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 13, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2018-6951
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-6951
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
- URL-https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a
- URL-https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201810-8
- URL-https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
- URL-https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
- CWE-476
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