Bug 1185262 (CVE-2014-9637) - CVE-2014-9637 patch: local denial of service with a crafted patch
Summary: CVE-2014-9637 patch: local denial of service with a crafted patch
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2014-9637
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1184491
Blocks: 1182159
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-23 10:42 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:45 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-07-31 04:44:11 UTC
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crash.tar.gz (1.80 KB, application/gzip)
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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/.
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