vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-6952: ELSA-2019-2033: patch security and bug fix update (LOW)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 3, 2018
Added
Jul 21, 2020
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

A double free exists in the another_hunk function in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6.
A double-free flaw was found in the way the patch utility processed patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patches.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-patch
Title
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