Issued

June 14, 2020

Package

rgb (crates.io)

Type

Unsound

Aliases

• CVE-2020-25016

Details

https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35

Patched

• >=0.8.20

Unaffected

• <0.5.4

Keywords

• type confusion

Description

Affected versions of rgb crate allow viewing and modifying data of any type T wrapped in RGB<T> as bytes, and do not correctly constrain RGB<T> and other wrapper structures to the types for which it is safe to do so.

Safety violation possible for a type wrapped in RGB<T> and similar wrapper structures:

• If T contains padding, viewing it as bytes may lead to exposure of contents of uninitialized memory.
• If T contains a pointer, modifying it as bytes may lead to dereferencing of arbitrary pointers.
• Any safety and/or validity invariants for T may be violated.

The issue was resolved by requiring all types wrapped in structures provided by RGB crate to implement an unsafe marker trait.

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