Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-46019
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-46019
Complete source record
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