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CVE-2018-6951

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 8.43%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-02-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2018-6951
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
8.43%

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.

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