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.

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.

Se ha descubierto un problema hasta la versión 2.7.6 de GNU patch. Hay un fallo de segmentación, asociado con una desreferencia de puntero NULL, que conduce a una denegación de servicio (DoS) en la función intuit_diff_type en pch.c. Esto también se conoce como problema "mangled rename".