vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-11640: recutils -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 1, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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