MSRC_CVE-2018-6951

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2018-02-02 00:00 - Updated: 2024-06-30 07:00
Summary
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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