{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-56288.json"
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.24",
        "name": "patch",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/patch?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.1-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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.\nAn attacker can trigger this condition with a malicious patch file, causing the utility to crash and resulting in a denial of service.\n\n\n\nThis issue has been fixed in the commit e6d6a4e021660679d7fc9150f981d4920f722313",
  "id": "ALPINE-CVE-2026-56288",
  "modified": "2026-11-05T01:30:03.027044008Z",
  "published": "2026-07-09T11:16:40.713Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-56288"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.9.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-56288"
  ]
}