CVE-2018-6951 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5