Out-of-bounds Write Affecting recutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-RECUTILS-529588
  • published1 May 2019
  • disclosed1 May 2019

Introduced: 1 May 2019

CVE-2019-11640  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 recutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream recutils package and not the recutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function rec_fex_parse_str_simple at rec-fex.c in librec.a.