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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6951: Vulnerability in GNU patch utility

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6951: Vulnerability in GNU patch utility

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

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(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-text-gnu-patch-2-7-6-1-0-175-3-33-0-3-0

References

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