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.
Published: 2018-02-13
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 15.3% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3624-1 Patch vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.23094}

epss

{'score': 0.23554}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:17:17.195Z

Reserved: 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-6951

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-13T19:29:00.510

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:28.273

Link: CVE-2018-6951

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-02-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6951 - Bugzilla

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