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CVE-2016-10713

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.

Affected products

• GNU patch: before 2.7.6 — fixed in 2.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU patch 2.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103063
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/src/pch.c?id=a0d7fe4589651c64bd16ddaaa634030bb0455866
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-2/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103063
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/src/pch.c?id=a0d7fe4589651c64bd16ddaaa634030bb0455866
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-2/

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