mullvad/mnl-rs · Security

mnl has segmentation fault and invalid memory read in `mnl::cb_run`

GHSA ID
GHSA-585q-cm62-757j
Severity
low
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Description

The function mnl::cb_run is marked as safe but exhibits unsound behavior when processing malformed Netlink message buffers.

Passing a crafted byte slice to mnl::cb_run can trigger memory violations. The function does not sufficiently validate the input buffer structure before processing, leading to out-of-bounds reads.

This vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (segmentation fault) or potentially read unmapped memory by providing a malformed Netlink message.

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