rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb · Security
Rust XCB `xcb::Connection::connect_to_fd*` functions violate I/O safety
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-655h-hg88-5qmf
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 1.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Description
The API of xcb::Connection has constructors which allow an arbitrary RawFd to be used as a socket connection. On either failure of these constructors or on the drop of Connection, it closes the associated file descriptor. Thus, a program which uses an OwnedFd (such as a UnixStream) as the file descriptor can close the file descriptor and continue to attempt using it or close an already-closed file descriptor, violating I/O safety.
Starting in version 1.6.0, xcb provides Connection::connect_with_fd and Connection::connect_with_fd_and_extensions as safe alternatives and deprecates the problematic functions.
CWEs
- CWE-666 · Operation on Resource in Wrong Phase of Lifetime
- CWE-672 · Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release
References
- https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/issues/167 ↗
- https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/issues/282 ↗
- https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/pull/283 ↗
- https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/pull/2355 ↗
- https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/commit/da830976870c1174e3b33eb0643177be3991c002 ↗
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0051.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-655h-hg88-5qmf ↗