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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.
Products | Ubuntu_linux, Patch |
Type | NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) |
First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
Links |
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132 • https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17 • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044 • https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a |