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An Invalid Pointer vulnerability exists in GNU patch 2.7...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 23, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An Invalid Pointer vulnerability exists in GNU patch 2.7 via the another_hunk function, which causes a Denial of Service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 22, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 23, 2021
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-45261

GHSA ID

GHSA-5wqw-cqhv-q8cv

Source code

No known source code

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