A heap-based out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the patch utility parsed patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patch files.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | patch | 2019-10-18 23:22 | ALAS-2019-1312 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | patch | 2019-10-21 18:01 | ALAS2-2019-1317 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 3.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |