RUSTSEC-2020-0073
Mutable reference with immutable provenance
- Reported
- Issued
- Package
- image (crates.io)
- Type
- INFO Unsound
- Keywords
- #pointer #cast #provenance
- Aliases
- References
- CVSS Score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CVSS Details
-
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Patched
-
>=0.23.12
- Affected Functions
- Version
image::Bgr::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
image::Bgra::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
image::Luma::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
image::LumaA::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
image::Rgb::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
image::Rgba::from_slice_mut-
<0.23.12
Description
A mutable reference to a struct was constructed by dereferencing a pointer
obtained from slice::as_ptr. Instead, slice::as_mut_ptr should have been
called on the mutable slice argument. The former performs an implicit reborrow
as an immutable shared reference which does not allow writing through the
derived pointer.
There is no evidence for miscompilation, exploitable or otherwise, caused by this bug. Further investigation on Zulip suggests that the unoptimized generated LLVM IR does not contain any UB itself, effectively mitigating further effects.
Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.