rtbo/rust-xcb · Security
Unchecked Return Value in xcb
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-3cj3-jrrp-9rxf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-26958
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.
CWEs
- CWE-252 · Unchecked Return Value