NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting futures-task package, versions <0.3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-FUTURESTASK-1252752
  • published21 Apr 2021
  • disclosed3 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 May 2020

CVE-2020-35907  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade futures-task to version 0.3.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread. This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn't accessible from the main thread.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1