GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-q95x-7g78-rccv OneRingBuf has a Use After Free Vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- 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)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness