CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-6455

Double Free

Published: Jan 16, 2019 | Modified: Jan 17, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a double-free problem in the function rec_mset_elem_destroy() in the file rec-mset.c.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Recutils Gnu 1.8 (including) 1.8 (including)
Recutils Ubuntu bionic *
Recutils Ubuntu cosmic *
Recutils Ubuntu disco *
Recutils Ubuntu eoan *
Recutils Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Recutils Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Recutils Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Recutils Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Recutils Ubuntu focal *
Recutils Ubuntu groovy *
Recutils Ubuntu hirsute *
Recutils Ubuntu impish *
Recutils Ubuntu jammy *
Recutils Ubuntu kinetic *
Recutils Ubuntu lunar *
Recutils Ubuntu mantic *
Recutils Ubuntu trusty *
Recutils Ubuntu upstream *
Recutils Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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