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CVE-2021-46019
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
An untrusted pointer dereference in rec_db_destroy() at rec-db.c of GNU Recutils v1.8.90 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
- GNU Recutils: 1.8.90
References
- https://github.com/gnu-mirror-unofficial/recutils/commit/34b75ed7ad492c8e38b669ebafe0176f1f9992d2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDVOFC3HTBG7DF2PZTEXRMG4CV2F55UF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRSXSN2XF6PX74WDYVV26TQMYIFAEQ3T/
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2021-12/msg00009.html
- https://github.com/gnu-mirror-unofficial/recutils/commit/34b75ed7ad492c8e38b669ebafe0176f1f9992d2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDVOFC3HTBG7DF2PZTEXRMG4CV2F55UF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRSXSN2XF6PX74WDYVV26TQMYIFAEQ3T/
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2021-12/msg00009.html
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