Use After Free Affecting bitvec package, versions >=0.11.0 <0.17.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-BITVEC-561588
  • published30 Mar 2020
  • disclosed27 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-35862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bitvec to version 0.17.4 or higher.

Overview

bitvec is a crate for managing memory bit by bit.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Conversion of BitVec to BitBox did not account for allocation movement. note: this vulnerability only affects mac-os machines.

CVSS Scores

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