CVE-2026-56288

ADVISORY - debian

Summary

GNU patch is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference when processing a specially crafted unified-diff patch file. Improper handling of consecutive end-of-file newline markers can corrupt internal hunk (single block of changes in diff) data structures, causing the application to pass a NULL pointer to fwrite() during patch processing. An attacker can trigger this condition with a malicious patch file, causing the utility to crash and resulting in a denial of service. This issue has been fixed in the commit e6d6a4e021660679d7fc9150f981d4920f722313

patch (unimportant) https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-56288/ https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=e6d6a4e021660679d7fc9150f981d4920f722313 Crash in CLI tool, no security impact

EPSS Score⁠: 0.00115 (0.018)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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