GHSA-v78m-2q7v-fjqp
Uncontrolled Recursion in rulex
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
When parsing untrusted rulex expressions, the stack may overflow, possibly enabling a Denial of Service attack. This happens when parsing an expression with several hundred levels of nesting, causing the process to abort immediately.
This is a security concern for you, if
- your service parses untrusted rulex expressions (expressions provided by an untrusted user), and
- your service becomes unavailable when the process running rulex aborts due to a stack overflow.
### Patches
The crash is fixed in version **0.4.3**. Affected users are advised to update to this version.
### Workarounds
None.
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [rulex](https://github.com/rulex-rs/rulex/issues)
* Email me at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
### Credits
Credit for finding these bugs goes to
- [evanrichter](https://github.com/evanrichter)
- [ForAllSecure Mayhem](https://forallsecure.com/)
- [cargo fuzz](https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz) and [afl.rs](https://github.com/rust-fuzz/afl.rs)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.