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CVE-2014-9637

16
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0234 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

fedorapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9637Low

patch: local denial of service with a crafted patch

Jan 20, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0068.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/patch.git/commit
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
savannah.gnu.org / bugs
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/72286
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2651-1
PatchThird Party Advisory