High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6951
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.
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Affected products
9- osv-coords8 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/patchpkg:apk/chainguard/patch-docpkg:apk/wolfi/patchpkg:apk/wolfi/patch-docpkg:rpm/opensuse/patch&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/patch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/patch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/patch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3
< 2.7.6-r3+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.6-r3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.6-r3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.6-r3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.6-r3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.6-3.43
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.5-8.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.5-8.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.5-8.5.1
Patches
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References
4- git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17nvd
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