Bug#775540: Infinite loop while applying patch

Control: tag -1 security Control: tag -2 security One of these is CVE-2014-9637 ; I'm not exactly sure which because seems to have supplied the same URL for both bugs in the upstream tracker,

Bug#775540: Infinite loop while applying patch

Package: patch The attached files seem to be getting patch into an infinite loop condition (or taking way too much time to run) patch util.h -i loop.patch I don't think this log is very useful but I ran it and paused it twice to check backtrace : user@user-box:~/patch/patch-2.7.1/src$ gdb ./pat