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Out of bounds write in nalgebra

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

cargo nalgebra (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.11.0, < 0.27.1

Patched versions

0.27.1

Description

The Deserialize implementation for VecStorage did not maintain the invariant that the number of elements must equal nrows * ncols. Deserialization of specially crafted inputs could allow memory access beyond allocation of the vector.

This flaw was introduced in v0.11.0 (086e6e) due to the addition of an automatically derived implementation of Deserialize for MatrixVec. MatrixVec was later renamed to VecStorage in v0.16.13 (0f66403) and continued to use the automatically derived implementation of Deserialize.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 8, 2021
Reviewed Aug 18, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-38190

GHSA ID

GHSA-3w8g-xr3f-2mp8

Source code

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