Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rust-pgp package, versions <0.14.2-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-RUSTPGP-8482344
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed5 Dec 2024

Introduced: 5 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable rust-pgp to version 0.14.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

rPGP is a pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP. Prior to 0.14.1, rPGP allows attackers to trigger resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in rpgp by providing crafted messages. This affects general message parsing and decryption with symmetric keys.