CVE-2016-10713: GNU Patch

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.

Affected products

• GNU Patch: before 2.7.6 (fixed in 2.7.6)

Published 2018-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.