GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-fjx5-qpf4-xjf2 Parsing borsh messages with ZST which are not-copy/clone is unsound
MEDIUM
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- 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.