GHSA-gx73-2498-r55cCriticalCVSS 9.8

Unsound casting in flatbuffers

Published
August 25, 2021
Last Modified
June 13, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2019-25004 →

📋 Description

The implementation of impl Follow for bool allows to reinterpret arbitrary bytes as a bool.

In Rust bool has stringent requirements for its in-memory representation. Use of this function allows to violate these requirements and invoke undefined behaviour in safe code.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/flatbuffers:>= 0.4.0, < 0.6.1

🔗 References (4)