CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2014-9637
Medium (5.5). EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- gnu:patch
- mageia:mageia
References
- 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