Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gix-date package, versions <0.12.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-GIXDATE-14860933
  • published5 Jan 2026
  • disclosed29 Dec 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Dec 2025

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gix-date to version 0.12.0 or higher.

Overview

gix-date is a package for parsing dates the way git does

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the parse::TimeBuf::as_str function, which improperly accepts non-UTF-8 strings as input.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1