Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package recutils  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RECUTILS-5694604
  • published16 Jan 2019
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019

Introduced: 16 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream recutils package and not the recutils package as distributed by Debian.

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in rec-buf.c when called from rec_parse_rset in rec-parser.c in librec.a.