Use After Free Affecting rust-libflate package, versions <0.1.25-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RUSTLIBFLATE-5695125
  • published29 Aug 2019
  • disclosed26 Aug 2019

Introduced: 26 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-15552  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 rust-libflate to version 0.1.25-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust-libflate package and not the rust-libflate package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the libflate crate before 0.1.25 for Rust. MultiDecoder::read has a use-after-free, leading to arbitrary code execution.