Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting rust-sized-chunks package, versions <0.6.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-RUSTSIZEDCHUNKS-1009950
  • published20 Sept 2020
  • disclosed19 Sept 2020

Introduced: 19 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25796  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable rust-sized-chunks to version 0.6.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the sized-chunks crate through 0.6.2 for Rust. In the InlineArray implementation, an unaligned reference may be generated for a type that has a large alignment requirement.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1