cve/2019/CVE-2019-11640.md

### [CVE-2019-11640](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11640)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function rec_fex_parse_str_simple at rec-fex.c in librec.a.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/recfix

#### Github
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