Medium severity · published Feb 13, 2018
CVE-2016-10713
An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6
5.5
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PA
Patch · Gnu
before 2.7.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10713
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10713
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103063
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033
Patch
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/src/pch.c?id=a0d7fe4589651c64bd16ddaaa634030bb0455866
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-2/
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