CVE-2018-6951

moderate-risk
Published 2018-02-13

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.

Do I need to act?

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15.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 85% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Gnu Canonical

References (10)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff8...
Issue Tracking https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff8...
Issue Tracking https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 10/34 · Low