VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9637

medium
Published 2017-08-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
21 Affected —
20 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.7.1-7
sid Fixed 2.7.1-7
forky Fixed 2.7.1-7
bullseye Fixed 2.7.1-7
bookworm Fixed 2.7.1-7

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupatch{"endIncluding":"2.7.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.