Heap overflow or corruption in safe-transmute · CVE-2018-21000 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Heap overflow or corruption in safe-transmute

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 13, 2023

Package

safe-transmute (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.4.0, < 0.10.1

Patched versions

0.10.1

Description

Affected versions of this crate switched the length and capacity arguments in the Vec::from_raw_parts() constructor, which could lead to memory corruption or data leakage.

References

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Jun 13, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H