CVE-2014-9637

medium

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-9447

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-25

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02361