GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-w5w5-8vfh-xcjq whoami stack buffer overflow on several Unix platforms

HIGH Published 2024-04-05 Modified 2024-04-05 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
whoami
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-121
Reviewed
2024-04-05

Affected packages

• crates.io whoami: >= 0.5.3, < 1.5.0 → fixed in 1.5.0

Description

With versions of the whoami crate >= 0.5.3 and = 0.5.3 and < 1.0.1, calling any of the above functions also leads to a stack buffer overflow on these platforms: • Bitrig • DragonFlyBSD • FreeBSD • NetBSD • OpenBSD This occurs because of an incorrect definition of the `passwd` struct on those platforms. As a result of this issue, denial of service and data corruption have both been observed in the wild. The issue is possibly exploitable as well. This vulnerability also affects other Unix platforms that aren't Linux or macOS. This issue has been addressed in whoami 1.5.0. For more information, see this GitHub issue.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References