Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting crossbeam-epoch package, versions >=0.9.0 <0.9.20
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- published7 Jul 2026
- disclosed6 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 6 Jul 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-824 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade crossbeam-epoch to version 0.9.20 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer in the fmt::Display implementation for Atomic and Shared when the underlying pointer is invalid, such as when created with Atomic::null or Shared::null. An attacker can cause a crash or potentially execute arbitrary code by triggering a dereference of an invalid pointer during formatting operations.