nrc/xmas-elf · Security

xmas-elf potential out-of-bounds read with a malformed ELF file and the HashTable API.

GHSA ID
GHSA-9cc5-2pq7-hfj8
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

Affected versions of this crate only validated the index argument of HashTable::get_bucket and HashTable::get_chain against the input-controlled bucket_count and chain_count fields, but not against the size of the ELF section. As a result, a malformed ELF file could trigger out-of-bounds reads in a consumer of the HashTable API by setting these fields to inappropriately large values that would fall outside the relevant hash table section, and by introducing correspondingly out-of-bounds hash table indexes elsewhere in the ELF file.

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