NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting recutils package, versions *
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- published3 Dec 2024
- disclosed16 Jan 2019
Introduced: 16 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6456 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:20.04 recutils.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream recutils package and not the recutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_fex_size() in the file rec-fex.c of librec.a.