GHSA-69fv-gw6g-8ccg

Potential memory corruption in arrayfire

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-20998

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	arrayfire	< 3.6.0	3.6.0
PyPI	arrayfire	< 3.6.0	3.6.0

Details

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

The attribute repr() added to enums to be compatible with C-FFI caused memory corruption on MSVC toolchain. arrayfire crates <= version 3.5.0 do not have this issue when used with Rust versions 1.27 or earlier. The issue only started to appear since Rust version 1.28. The issue seems to be interlinked with which version of Rust is being used. The issue was fixed in crate 3.6.0.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20998 advisory
https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust/pull/177 web
https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust/commit/a5256f3e5e23b83eaad69699e0b04653aba04fb8 web
https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/arrayfire/PYSEC-2019-144.yaml web
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0011.html web