GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-fjx5-qpf4-xjf2 Parsing borsh messages with ZST which are not-copy/clone is unsound

MEDIUM Published 2023-04-17 Modified 2024-09-23 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
borsh
Severity
Moderate
Reviewed
2023-04-17

Affected packages

• crates.io borsh: < 1.0.0-alpha.1 → fixed in 1.0.0-alpha.1

Description

Affected versions of borsh cause undefined behavior when zero-sized-types (ZST) are parsed and the Copy/Clone traits are not implemented/derived. For instance if 1000 instances of a ZST are deserialized, and the ZST is not copy (this can be achieved through a singleton), then accessing/writing to deserialized data will cause a segmentation fault. There is currently no way for borsh to read data without also providing a Rust type. Therefore, if you are not using ZST for serialization, then you are not affected by this issue.

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