Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-11638

Description

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.

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Affected products

GNU/Recutilsinferred3 versions
= 1.8+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: = 1.8
- cpe:2.3:a:gnu:recutils:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: =1.8

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References

github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutilsnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/rec2csvnvdThird Party Advisory

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