| Name | CVE-2026-56288 |
| Description | GNU patch is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference when processing ... |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| patch (PTS) | bookworm, bullseye | 2.7.6-7 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 2.8-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| patch | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-56288/
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=e6d6a4e021660679d7fc9150f981d4920f722313
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact