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RUSTSEC-2020-0068

Unexpected panic in multihash from_slice parsing code

Reported
Issued
Package
multihash (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
Keywords
#parsing #panic #untrusted-data
Aliases
Details
https://github.com/multiformats/rust-multihash/pull/72
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
  • >=0.11.3
Affected Functions
Version
multihash::digests::MultihashGeneric::from_bytes
  • <0.11.3
multihash::digests::MultihashRefGeneric::from_slice
  • <0.11.3

Description

In versions prior 0.11.3 it's possible to make from_slice panic by feeding it certain malformed input. It's never documented that from_slice (and from_bytes which wraps it) can panic, and its' return type (Result<Self, DecodeError>) suggests otherwise.

In practice, from_slice/from_bytes is frequently used in networking code (for example in rust-libp2p) and is being called with unsanitized data from untrusted sources. This can allow attackers to cause DoS by causing an unexpected panic in the network client's code.