Reported

June 8, 2019

Issued

October 1, 2020 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

protobuf (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• denial-of-service

Keywords

#oom #panic

Aliases

• CVE-2019-15544
• GHSA-mh6h-f25p-98f8

References

• https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/411

CVSS Score

7.5 HIGH

CVSS Details

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS Vector

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

Patched

• ^1.7.5
• >=2.6.0

Affected Functions

Version

protobuf::stream::read_raw_bytes_into

• <2.6.0

Description

Affected versions of this crate called Vec::reserve() on user-supplied input.

This allows an attacker to cause an Out of Memory condition while calling the vulnerable method on untrusted data.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.