mullvad/nftnl-rs · Security
libnftnl has Heap-based Buffer Overflow in nftnl::Batch::with_page_size (nftnl-rs)
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-2fjw-whxm-9v4q
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
Description
A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability exists in the Rust wrapper for libnftnl, triggered via the nftnl::Batch::with_page_size constructor. When a small or malformed page size is provided, the underlying C code allocates an insufficient buffer, leading to out-of-bounds writes during batch initialization.
The flaw was fixed in commit 94a286f by adding an overflow check:
batch_page_size
.checked_add(crate::nft_nlmsg_maxsize())
.expect("batch_page_size is too large and would overflow");
CWEs
- CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow