VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2014-9637
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.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.36%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.36% probability · 83th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- fedoraproject/fedora · mageia/mageia · canonical/ubuntu linux · gnu/patch
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.