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CVE-2019-11640

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• GNU Recutils: 1.8

References

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/recfix
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/recfix

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