ubuntu-cve-2019-11639
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-05-01 18:29
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function rec_type_check_enum at rec-types.c in librec.a.

Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "details": "An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function rec_type_check_enum at rec-types.c in librec.a.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11639",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:58Z",
  "published": "2019-05-01T18:29:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11639"
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