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CVE-2014-9637

patch: local denial of service with a crafted patch

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.1

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · January 20, 2015

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified