GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jhMediumCVSS 4.5

transpose: Buffer overflow due to integer overflow

Published
April 5, 2024
Last Modified
July 28, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Given the function transpose::transpose:

fn transpose<T: Copy>(input: &[T], output: &mut [T], input_width: usize, input_height: usize)

The safety check input_width * input_height == output.len() can fail due to input_width * input_height overflowing in such a way that it equals output.len(). As a result of failing the safety check, memory past the end of output is written to. This only occurs in release mode since * panics on overflow in debug mode.

Exploiting this issue requires the caller to pass input_width and input_height arguments such that multiplying them overflows, and the overflown result equals the lengths of input and output slices.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/transpose:>= 0.1.0, < 0.2.3

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