Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting postscript package, versions <0.14.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.32% (71st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUST-POSTSCRIPT-5707469
- published 14 Jun 2023
- disclosed 25 Aug 2021
- credit @sslab-gatech
Introduced: 25 Aug 2021
CVE-2021-26953 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade postscript to version 0.14.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource. Arbitrary Read implementations can read from the uninitialized buffer (memory exposure) and also can return an incorrect number of bytes written to the buffer. Reading from uninitialized memory produces undefined values that can quickly invoke undefined behavior.
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