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GHSA-qpgv-g792-wh6x

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in parse_duration

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-29932

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
crates.io parse_duration <= 2.1.1 no fix listed

Details

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

An issue was discovered in the parse_duration crate through 2021-03-18 for Rust. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a duration string with a large exponent.

References

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