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CVE-2014-9637
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-399
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.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
- GNU patch: through 2.7.2
- Mageia: 4.0
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
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