vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-45261: patch -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 22, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An Invalid Pointer vulnerability exists in GNU patch 2.7 via the another_hunk function, which causes a Denial of Service.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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