debian · CVE-2018-6951

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:56 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-6951 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (patch), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5.

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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