vulnwire
7.5high

CVE-2018-6951

An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
8.4%
percentile 95%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

8.36% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

  • usn.ubuntu.com /3624-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • git.savannah.gnu.org /cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/103044 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • savannah.gnu.org /bugs/index.php?53132 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201904-17 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.