Bug 1185262 (CVE-2014-9637)

Summary: CVE-2014-9637 patch: local denial of service with a crafted patch
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: twaugh
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Bug Depends On: 1184491    
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-23 10:42:14 UTC 
It was reported [1] that a crafted diff file (attached) can make patch to eat memory and later segfault.
Upstream commit that fixes this:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944

[1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051
Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-23 10:45:36 UTC 
Created attachment 983284 [details]
crash.tar.gz
Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-23 11:16:11 UTC 
Created patch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1184491]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-01-30 23:54:18 UTC 
patch-2.7.3-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-04-04 07:20:42 UTC 
patch-2.7.5-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2015-07-31 04:44:11 UTC 
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/.