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CVE-2021-46022

• 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-416

Description

An Use-After-Free vulnerability in rec_mset_elem_destroy() at rec-mset.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/msg00007.html
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46022
• 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/msg00007.html
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46022

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