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Port details

devel/patch2.8

GNU patch utility

Maintainer
danfe@FreeBSD.org
Packages
patch 2.8
Upstream
Higher version available: 2.8.1
CPE
gnu:patch from the port
WWW
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/
Links
cgit · VuXML

Unaddressed (2) · The CVE record lists this version as affected, no VuXML entry names the CVE

CVE-2026-562884.6published 2026-07-09

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 trigge…

CVE-2026-562894.6published 2026-07-09

GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single block of changes in diff) line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the application to enter an effectively infinite processing loop while attempting to locate the requested position. This re…

VuXML only (0) · listed, port not fixed yet

None. pkg audit reports nothing for this version.

Fixed (1)

VuXML entries whose affected range this version has left.

Commits (59)

David W. Chapman Jr. (dwcjr) · 2.5.4
Update to 2.5.4 Give petef@databits.net maintainership Add WWW to pkg-descr

PR:		29155
Submitted by:	petef@databits.net
8a887af45b
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 2.5_1
Bump PORTREVISION for the name change to gpatch.
ac6956550b
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 2.5
Avoid conflict with /usr/bin/patch by installing the version from the ports collection as "gpatch".  Beautify the descriptions. Update the ports which depend on this version.

PR:		23702
Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Reviewed by:	knu
2175105ad7
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 2.5
Remove myself from MAINTAINER
98526b6497
Michael Haro (mharo) · 2.5
PORTNAME/PORTVERSION update
ed33fb7de0
David E. O'Brien (obrien)
Change Id->FreeBSD.
9a9ac6ba9d
Bill Fenner (fenner)
${MASTER_SITE_GNU} got rearranged in December; let's catch up.
5261958626
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Remove manpages define in MAN? fom PLIST for all the devel ports. I'm going to leave p5-* alone for now (where the version stuff is going to land is still unclear).
c12c2467ed
Andrey A. Chernov (ache)
Add GNU patch 2.5 as port
556d69c883