Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Patch Affected by NULL Pointer Dereference
CVE-2018-6951

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Patch
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 February 2018

Summary

A segmentation fault issue found in GNU Patch versions up to 2.7.6 can be triggered by a NULL pointer dereference in the intuit_diff_type function, leading to a denial of service. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to disrupt the service provided by the affected software, ultimately impacting system availability.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f2...
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

EPSS Score

23% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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