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CVE-2019-11640

Date: May 1, 2019

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function rec_fex_parse_str_simple at rec-fex.c in librec.a.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-11640

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11640

Url: https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/recfix

Url: https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11640

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-11640

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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