What is GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86?

GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Unchecked Return Value in xcb

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86 cover?

GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-26955. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86?

GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86?

GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86 affects 1 product, including: rust/xcb:\u003c 1.0.0.

GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86CriticalCVSS 9.8

Unchecked Return Value in xcb

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2021

Last Modified

July 10, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-26955 →

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because xcb::xproto::GetAtomNameReply::name() calls std::str::from_utf8_unchecked() on unvalidated bytes from an X server.

🎯 Affected products1

rust/xcb:< 1.0.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26955
https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/653
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0019.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3288-cwgw-ch86