Vulnerability in Gnu Patch
CVE-2026-56289
GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single block of changes in diff) line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the…
Affected products
- Gnu Patch — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cvd@cert.pl (third-party-advisory)
- cvd@cert.pl (product)
- cvd@cert.pl (patch)