Double Free Affecting hnswlib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-HNSWLIB-5750284
  • published 2 Jul 2023
  • disclosed 30 Jun 2023
  • credit D4rkD0g

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

hnswlib is a hnswlib

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free in init_index when the M argument is a large integer.

PoC

import hnswlib

h = hnswlib.Index(space='l2', dim=1)
h.init_index(max_elements=1, ef_construction=200, M=2305843009213693951)
h.add_items([1], -1)

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

6.5 medium