UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6458

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6458

    Published: 16 Jan 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-6458
    Aliases:
    USN-7137-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6458, https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6458, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7137-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: recutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1.7-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High