CVE-2014-9637
First published: Fri Jan 23 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =20 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =21 | |
| Mageia Mageia | =4.0 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.10 | |
| GNU patch | <=2.7.2 | |
| debian/patch | 2.7.6-7 |
Remedy
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
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Reference Links
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=983284
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=983284&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1184491
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262
- 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://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9637
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