vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-6951: Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 13, 2018
Added
Apr 18, 2019
Modified
Aug 13, 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-patch
Title
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