CVE-2014-9637

MEDIUM

GNU patch <2.7.2 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.

References (9)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0038

EPSS Percentile 58.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (7)

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

mageia/mageia

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

gnu/patch < 2.7.2

Timeline

Published Aug 25, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026