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medium 5.5

CVE-2016-10713 json

An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6.

published 2018-02-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1712

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • gnu patch 2.7.6
  • patch Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.7.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10713

  • patch Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4
  • patch Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10713

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • patch RHEL 7 2.7.1-11.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2033

  • patch SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA +2 more 2.5.9-252.22.7.1
  • patch SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 2.7.5-8.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1162-1SUSE-SU-2018:1128-1

  • patch openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.7.6-3.43

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11151-1

  • patch Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4 2.7.5-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-10713

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • patch Arch Linux 2.7.6-1

arch linux advisories AVG-618

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10713 updated cvss 3.3

patch: Out-of-bounds access in pch_write_line function in pch.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 patch
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 patch
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) patch 2.7.1-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) patch 2.7.1-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) patch 2.7.1-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) patch 2.7.1-11.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2033
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 patch
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.