Bug 1545053 (CVE-2018-6952)
Summary: | CVE-2018-6952 patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Sam Fowler <sfowler> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | apmukher, than, twaugh |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A double-free flaw was found in the way the patch utility processed patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patches.
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2019-08-06 13:18:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1545054, 1554752, 1554758, 1554759 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1545055 |
Description
Sam Fowler
2018-02-14 07:19:30 UTC
Created patch tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1545054] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2033 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-6952 |