Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting apache/arrow package, versions [0.14.0,0.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.25% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEARROW-2367308
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-12408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/arrow to version 0.15.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Initialization of Resource. It was discovered that the C++ implementation (which underlies the R, Python and Ruby implementations) of Apache Arrow 0.14.0 to 0.14.1 had a uninitialized memory bug when building arrays with null values in some cases. This can lead to uninitialized memory being unintentionally shared if Arrow Arrays are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1