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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.