CVE-2014-9637
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · CWE-399
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262Patch
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286Advisory