Bug 2047808 (CVE-2021-46019)

Summary:	CVE-2021-46019 recutils: untrusted pointer dereference in rec_db_destroy() at rec-db.c may lead to DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Marian Rehak 2022-01-28 15:33:38 UTC

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.

Reference:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2021-12/msg00009.html

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2022-01-28 15:34:29 UTC

Created recutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2047809]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-28 16:02:12 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.