What is CVE-2016-10713?

CVE-2016-10713 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Patch, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-13.

How severe is CVE-2016-10713?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in GNU Patch

CVE-2016-10713

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-02-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-10.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNU Patch

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3624-2/ (vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/ (vendor-advisory)
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/src/pch.c (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/103063 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10713?: CVE-2016-10713 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Patch, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-10713?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.