What is CVE-2019-11638?

CVE-2019-11638 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Recutils, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-05-01.

How severe is CVE-2019-11638?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Gnu Recutils

CVE-2019-11638

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_field_name_equal_p at rec-field-name.c in librec.a, leading to a crash.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.014 (69.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Recutils — versions 1.8
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11638?: CVE-2019-11638 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Recutils, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-05-01.
How severe is CVE-2019-11638?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.