Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-6951  

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.

Severity Low

Remote No

Type Denial of service

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.

AVG-619 patch 2.7.6-1 2.7.6-3 High Fixed FS#57526

09 Oct 2018 ASA-201810-8 AVG-619 patch High multiple issues

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53132
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a