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.

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