GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-49fq-pw77-6qxj Use after free in string-interner

HIGH Published 2021-08-25 Modified 2023-06-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-16882
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
string-interner
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-416
Reviewed
2021-08-19

Affected packages

• crates.io string-interner: >= 0.7.0, < 0.7.1 → fixed in 0.7.1 • crates.io string-interner: < 0.6.4 → fixed in 0.6.4

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not clone contained strings when an interner is cloned. Interners have raw pointers to the contained strings, and they keep pointing the strings which the old interner owns, after the interner is cloned. If a new cloned interner is alive and the old original interner is dead, the new interner has dangling pointers to the old interner's storage, which is already dropped. This allows an attacker to read the already freed memory. The dangling pointers are used by the interners to check a string is already interned. An attacker can do brute force attack to get the data pointed by the dangling pointer.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-16882 An issue was discovered in the string-interner crate before 0.7.1 for Rust. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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