CVE-2019-6456

Publication date 16 January 2019

Last updated 4 December 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_fex_size() in the file rec-fex.c of librec.a.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
recutils	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.8-1ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.8-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.7-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

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Patches are not marked for their respective CVE fixes.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7137-1
recutils vulnerabilities
4 December 2024