Bug 1122352 (CVE-2019-6458) - VUL-1: CVE-2019-6458: gnu-recutils: There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in rec-buf.c when called from rec_parse_rset in rec-parser.c in librec.a.
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2019-6458: gnu-recutils: There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2019-6458
Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: Leap 15.0
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor (vote)
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Assignee: Luigi Baldoni
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/223063/
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Reported: 2019-01-17 12:55 UTC by Alexandros Toptsoglou
Modified: 2019-02-28 18:54 UTC (History)
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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-01-17 12:55:22 UTC 
CVE-2019-6458

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in rec-buf.c when called from rec_parse_rset in rec-parser.c in librec.a.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-6458
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-6458/
Comment 1 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-01-17 12:56:52 UTC 
For more information refer at [1] at number 3 at the third direct leak 

[1] https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils
Comment 2 Luigi Baldoni 2019-01-17 16:58:38 UTC 
We're still at 1.7. Unsure if this concerns us, but upstream says they're working on it.
Comment 3 Luigi Baldoni 2019-02-28 18:54:10 UTC 
Upstream unresponsive, package deleted.