GHSA-2v78-j59h-fmpf

Heap overflow or corruption in safe-transmute

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-21000

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	safe-transmute	>= 0.4.0, < 0.10.1	0.10.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Affected versions of this crate switched the length and capacity arguments in the Vec::from_raw_parts() constructor, which could lead to memory corruption or data leakage.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21000 advisory
https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/pull/36 web
https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/commit/a134e06d740f9d7c287f74c0af2cd06206774364 web
https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs package
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0013.html web