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CVE-2021-45261

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-763

Description

An Invalid Pointer vulnerability exists in GNU patch 2.7 via the another_hunk function, which causes a Denial of Service.

Affected products

• GNU patch: 2.7

References

• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61685
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61685

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