CVE-2014-9637 Information

Description

GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5