Resource exhaustion in Gnu - CVE-2014-9637

 

Resource exhaustion in Gnu - CVE-2014-9637

Published: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12549
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9637
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Gnu

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to memory consumption. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted diff file and cause the service to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2014-9637

Install update from vendor's website.

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