GHSA-cjw4-2w9r-r8mvHighCVSS 7.5

Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
October 21, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory could potentially be shared if are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

🎯 Affected products2

  • rubygems/red-arrow:>= 0.12.0, < 0.15.1
  • pip/pyarrow:>= 0.12.0, < 0.15.1

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