Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-6951 First vendor Publication 2018-02-13
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6951

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-c255f16bfe.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_791841a3d4844878890992ef9ce424f4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-d547a126e7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-24 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-b127e58641.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bf...
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
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Date Informations
2024-11-28 13:22:36
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2021-12-29 01:34:16
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2021-05-04 13:19:53
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2021-04-22 02:34:30
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2020-05-23 02:19:58
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2020-05-23 01:19:01
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2019-04-18 05:18:46
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2019-03-05 21:19:24
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2018-04-12 09:18:56
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2018-03-14 17:19:03
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2018-02-17 09:20:23
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2018-02-14 00:20:17
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