GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-q95x-7g78-rccv OneRingBuf has a Use After Free Vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-08 Modified 2026-07-08 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
oneringbuf
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-416
Reviewed
2026-07-08

Affected packages

• crates.io oneringbuf: < 0.8.0 → fixed in 0.8.0

Description

Affected versions of `oneringbuf` exposed the obsolete `IntoRef::into_ref` method through the public `IntoRef` trait. For heap-backed ring buffers, this method returned a `DroppableRef` handle. `DroppableRef` stored an owning raw pointer created from `Box::into_raw`. Its `Clone` implementation copied this raw pointer without incrementing the internal `alive_iters` counter. Internally, this clone pattern appears to rely on a fixed number of handles being created to match the initial `alive_iters` value. However, exposing `DroppableRef` through the public `IntoRef::TargetRef` associated type allows safe external code to create additional clones beyond that fixed count, breaking the lifetime protocol. `Drop` later dereferenced the pointer and could free the backing allocation with `Box::from_raw`. Safe code could call `IntoRef::into_ref` to obtain a `DroppableRef` and then clone it. Each clone pointed to the same allocation, but the internal `alive_iters` counter was not increased. As a result, one clone could free the allocation while another clone still existed. Dropping the remaining clone then accessed freed memory, causing a heap-use-after-free. The issue was fixed in version 0.8.0 by removing the obsolete `into_ref` method. Trigger ```rust use oneringbuf::{IntoRef, LocalHeapRB}; fn main() { let rb = LocalHeapRB::::from(vec![1, 2, 3]); let r = as IntoRef>::into_ref(rb); let r2 = r.clone(); let r3 = r.clone(); drop(r); drop(r2); drop(r3); // AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free } ```

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References