High (7.5). EPSS 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)