Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.231
EPSS Ranking 95.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
Products affected by CVE-2018-6951
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.5.9
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.6
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10