Reported

April 9, 2020

Issued

March 1, 2021 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

generic-array (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• memory-corruption

Keywords

#soundness

Aliases

• CVE-2020-36465
• GHSA-3358-4f7f-p4j4

References

• https://github.com/fizyk20/generic-array/issues/98

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

• >=0.8.4, <0.9.0
• >=0.9.1, <0.10.0
• >=0.10.1, <0.11.0
• >=0.11.2, <0.12.0
• >=0.12.4, <0.13.0
• >=0.13.3

Unaffected

• <0.8.0

Description

Affected versions of this crate allowed unsoundly extending lifetimes using arr! macro. This may result in a variety of memory corruption scenarios, most likely use-after-free.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.