CVE-2021-28875

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28875
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-11 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-03 19:38:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the standard library in Rust before 1.50.0, read_to_end() does not validate the return value from Read in an unsafe context. This bug could lead to a buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-252

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rust-lang Rust All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Rust: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-09) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Fix handling of malicious Readers in read_to_end by sfackler · Pull Request #80895 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
Heap buffer overflow in `read_to_end_with_reservation()` · Issue #80894 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159344 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:ol8 (ELSA-2021-3063)
  • 182504 Debian Security Update for rustc (CVE-2021-28875)
  • 239538 Red Hat Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:3063)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 377347 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0061)
  • 710640 Gentoo Linux Rust Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-09)
  • 900062 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for rust 1.47.0
  • 903213 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rust (4082)
  • 940361 AlmaLinux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALSA-2021:3063)
  • 960098 Rocky Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2021:3063)
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