- Description
- GNU patch is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference when processing a specially crafted unified-diff patch file. Improper handling of consecutive end-of-file newline markers can corrupt internal hunk (single block of changes in diff) data structures, causing the application to pass a NULL pointer to fwrite() during patch processing. An attacker can trigger this condition with a malicious patch file, causing the utility to crash and resulting in a denial of service. This issue has been fixed in the commit e6d6a4e021660679d7fc9150f981d4920f722313
- Source
- cvd@cert.pl
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- patch
CVSS 4.0
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 4.6
- Impact score
- -
- Exploitability score
- -
- Vector string
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- cvd@cert.pl
- CWE-476
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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