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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6455
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

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)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils

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