CVE-2021-45707

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45707
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-27 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-28 17:48:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the nix crate 0.16.0 and later before 0.20.2, 0.21.x before 0.21.2, and 0.22.x before 0.22.2 for Rust. unistd::getgrouplist has an out-of-bounds write if a user is in more than 16 /etc/groups groups.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nix Project Nix All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
RUSTSEC-2021-0119: nix: Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist › RustSec Advisory Database MISC rustsec.org
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nix/RUSTSEC-2021-0119.md MISC raw.githubusercontent.com
Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist · GHSA-wgrg-5h56-jg27 · GitHub Advisory Database · 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

  • 184800 Debian Security Update for rust-nix (CVE-2021-45707)
  • 904934 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rpm-ostree (12418)
  • 905139 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rpm-ostree (12627)

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