Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package recutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2410-RECUTILS-8211610
  • published3 Dec 2024
  • disclosed1 May 2019

Introduced: 1 May 2019

CVE-2019-11639  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:24.10.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function rec_type_check_enum at rec-types.c in librec.a.