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.
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |