RUSTSEC-2021-0043

PartialReader passes uninitialized memory to user-provided Read
Issued
Package
uu_od (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
  • memory-exposure
Aliases
Details
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1729
Patched
  • >=0.0.4

Description

Affected versions of this crate passed an uniniitalized buffer to a user-provided Read instance in PartialReader::read.

This can result in safe Read implementations reading from the uninitialized buffer leading to undefined behavior.

The flaw was fixed in commit 39d62c6 by zero-initializing the passed buffer.

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