{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2018-02-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash",
    "id" : "1545053",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545053"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A double free exists in the another_hunk function in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6.", "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2033",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "patch-0:2.7.1-11.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "patch",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "patch",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "patch",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6952\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6952" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-6952",
  "csaw" : false
}