kornelski/rust-rgb · Security
Out of bounds access in rgb
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-g4rw-8m5q-6453
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-25016
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
Affected versions of rgb crate allow viewing and modifying data of any type T wrapped in RGB as bytes, and do not correctly constrain RGB and other wrapper structures to the types for which it is safe to do so.
Safety violation possible for a type wrapped in RGB and similar wrapper structures:
- If T contains padding, viewing it as bytes may lead to exposure of contents of uninitialized memory.
- If T contains a pointer, modifying it as bytes may lead to dereferencing of arbitrary pointers.
- Any safety and/or validity invariants for T may be violated.
The issue was resolved by requiring all types wrapped in structures provided by RGB crate to implement an unsafe marker trait.
CWEs
- CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
- CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')