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CVE-2014-9637

Date: August 25, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286

Url: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9637

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9637

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9637

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9637

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262

Url: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-9637

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.1
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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