CVE-2014-9637 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU patch versions 2.7.2 and earlier, affecting products from Canonical, Fedora Project, GNU, and Mageia. An attacker can trigger memory consumption and a segmentation fault by supplying a specially crafted diff file. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to achieve a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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