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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:14:27 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: Martin Prpic <mprpic@...hat.com>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: directory traversal flaw in patch
> Hi!
>
> I think these issues in patch also deserve CVEs:
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051
> "With a specific file, patch goes to infinite loop and eats all CPU time."
Use CVE-2014-9637.
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=44a987e02f04b9d81a0db4a611145cad1093a2d3
> "Add line number overflow checking. Based on Robert C. Seacord's INT32-C
> document for integer overflow checking and Tobias Stoeckmann's "integer
> overflows and oob memory access" patch for FreeBSD."
What is the security impact of this issue? The commit is not immediately
clear.
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