CVE-2022-36086

Summary

CVECVE-2022-36086
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-07 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-07-21 19:23:00 UTC
Descriptionlinked_list_allocator is an allocator usable for no_std systems. Prior to version 0.10.2, the heap initialization methods were missing a minimum size check for the given heap size argument. This could lead to out-of-bound writes when a heap was initialized with a size smaller than `3 * size_of::<usize>` because of metadata write operations. This vulnerability impacts all the initialization functions on the `Heap` and `LockedHeap` types, including `Heap::new`, `Heap::init`, `Heap::init_from_slice`, and `LockedHeap::new`. It also affects multiple uses of the `Heap::extend` method. Version 0.10.2 contains a patch for the issue. As a workaround, ensure that the heap is only initialized with a size larger than `3 * size_of::<usize>` and that the `Heap::extend` method is only called with sizes larger than `2 * size_of::<usize>()`. Also, ensure that the total heap size is (and stays) a multiple of `2 * size_of::<usize>()`.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1284

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rust-osdev Linked-list-allocator All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Out-of-bound writes possible on `Heap` initialization and `Heap::extend` · Advisory · rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Merge pull request from GHSA-xg8p-34w2-j49j · rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator@013b075 · GitHub MISC github.com
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