Uninitialized Memory Exposure Affecting bite package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-BITE-1569197
  • published24 Aug 2021
  • disclosed31 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-36511  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-201  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for bite.

Overview

bite is a read and write primitives in little endian, and in big endian.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uninitialized Memory Exposure. It calls a user provided Read implementation on an uninitialized buffer. Read on uninitialized buffer is defined as undefined behavior in Rust.

References

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