RUSTSEC-2018-0020

Possible use-after-free with proplist::Iterator

Reported

December 22, 2018

Issued

October 22, 2020 (last modified: October 19, 2021)

Package

libpulse-binding (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

memory-corruption

Aliases

Details

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6gvc-4jvj-pwq4

CVSS Score

6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS Details

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: High
Availability: None

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Patched

>=2.5.0

Unaffected

<1.0.5

Description

Affected versions contained a possible use-after-free issue with property list iteration due to a lack of a lifetime constraint tying the lifetime of a proplist::Iterator to the Proplist object for which it was created. This made it possible for users, without experiencing a compiler error/warning, to destroy the Proplist object before the iterator, thus destroying the underlying C object the iterator works upon, before the iterator may be finished with it.

This impacts all versions of the crate before 2.5.0 back to 1.0.5. Before version 1.0.5 the function that produces the iterator was broken to the point of being useless.