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vulnerabilityCVE-2018-6951
Name
CVE-2018-6951
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
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.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
-

Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
patch
Patched

Vulnerability Ratings#


7.5
other
5
CVSSv2

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
2.7.6
Patched
buildroot
master
2.7.6
Patched
openwrt
master
2.8-r1
Not Affected
openwrt
openwrt-25.12
2.8-r1
Not Affected
yocto
master
2.8
Not Affected
yocto
scarthgap
2.7.6
Patched

Resolved with patches#


patch (buildroot:2025.02.x)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix segfault with mangled rename patch
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
CVE-2018-6951

patch (buildroot:master)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix segfault with mangled rename patch
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
CVE-2018-6951

patch (yocto:kirkstone)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix segfault with mangled rename patch
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
CVE-2018-6951

patch (yocto:scarthgap)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix segfault with mangled rename patch
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
CVE-2018-6951