CVE-2019-6458

MEDIUM

GNU Recutils - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (1)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils

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Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 33.0%

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-401

Status published

Affected Products (1)

gnu/recutils

Timeline

Published Jan 16, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026