CVE-2018-6951

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
15.333

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2018:1128-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) patch-2.7.5-8.5.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1128-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) patch-debuginfo-2.7.5-8.5.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1128-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) patch-debugsource-2.7.5-8.5.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234