bennetthardwick/nano-arena · Security
Use after free in nano_arena
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wp34-mqw5-jj85
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-28032
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Affected versions of this crate assumed that Borrow was guaranteed to return the same value on .borrow(). The borrowed index value was used to retrieve a mutable reference to a value.
If the Borrow implementation returned a different index, the split arena would allow retrieving the index as a mutable reference creating two mutable references to the same element. This violates Rust's aliasing rules and allows for memory safety issues such as writing out of bounds and use-after-frees.
The flaw was corrected in commit 6b83f9d by storing the .borrow() value in a temporary variable.
CWEs
- CWE-416 · Use After Free
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28032 ↗
- https://github.com/bennetthardwick/nano-arena/issues/1 ↗
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0031.html ↗
- https://github.com/bennetthardwick/nano-arena/commit/6b83f9d0708337a9f8b709c1624a8587021ceba2 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp34-mqw5-jj85 ↗