CVE-2019-11638

MEDIUM

GNU recutils <1.8 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_field_name_equal_p at rec-field-name.c in librec.a, leading to a crash.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 38.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-125 CWE-476
Status published

Affected Products (1)

gnu/recutils

Timeline

Published May 01, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026