GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-6jgw-rgmm-7cv6 PyO3 has a risk of use-after-free in `borrowed` reads from Python weak references

MEDIUM Published 2024-10-15 Modified 2024-10-15 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-9979
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
pyo3
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-416
Reviewed
2024-10-15

Affected packages

• crates.io pyo3: >= 0.22.0, < 0.22.4 → fixed in 0.22.4

Description

The family of functions to read "borrowed" values from Python weak references were fundamentally unsound, because the weak reference does itself not have ownership of the value. At any point the last strong reference could be cleared and the borrowed value would become dangling. In PyO3 0.22.4 these functions have all been deprecated and patched to leak a strong reference as a mitigation. PyO3 0.23 will remove these functions entirely.

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Weakness · CWE (1)

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