alpine-cve-2026-56288
CVSS 5.5 osv_alpine
Description
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
Timeline
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CVSS Details
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Affected Products
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Linked Vulnerabilities
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"affected": [
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"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-56288.json"
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"ecosystem_specific": {},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.24",
"name": "patch",
"purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/patch?arch=source"
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"events": [
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"introduced": "0"
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"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"
}
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"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"
}
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"upstream": [
"CVE-2026-56288"
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