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CVE-2014-9637 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/25/2017
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.5 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 1.8

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.1 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-9637
NVD Published Date:
08/25/2017
NVD Last Modified:
08/29/2017