Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting red-parquet package, versions >=0.12.0, <0.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-REDPARQUET-483028
  • published8 Nov 2019
  • disclosed8 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-12410  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade red-parquet to version 0.15.1 or higher.

Overview

red-parquet is a Parquet bindings of Apache Arrow

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable. Leaves memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory could potentially be shared if are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

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