gnu patch CVE-2018-6951 in GNU and Canonical Products
Published on February 13, 2018

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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.

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
8.59%
Percentile
94.43%

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