Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-46021 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

gnu

fedoraproject

CWE-416

NVD

Published: 2022-01-14

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

An Use-After-Free vulnerability in rec_record_destroy() at rec-record.c of GNU Recutils v1.8.90 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Gnu GNU Recutils 1.8.90	1
OS	Fedoraproject Fedoraproject Fedora 35 Fedoraproject Fedora 36	2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-416 - Use After Free

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2021-12/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRSXSN2XF6PX74WDYVV26TQMYIFAEQ3T/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDVOFC3HTBG7DF2PZTEXRMG4CV2F55UF/