{"action":"Upgrade patch to 2.7.6-r2 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.7.6-r2","introduced":"0"}],"component":"patch","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.15","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.7.6-r2"],"id":"tcs_01M5NAYSHFTR8VKPRDWKNYM62B","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:17:55.287454338Z","published_at":"2018-02-13T19:29:00.510Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6951","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6951"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-6951#Alpine:v3.15/patch","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6951"}],"summary":"An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c,"}