cve/2018/CVE-2018-6951.md

### [CVE-2018-6951](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6951)
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### Description

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, aka a "mangled rename" issue.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example
- https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container