What is GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx?

GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Arbitrary return types in xcb

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx cover?

GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-26956. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx?

GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx?

GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx affects 1 product, including: rust/xcb:\u003c 1.0.0.

GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfxCriticalCVSS 9.8

Arbitrary return types in xcb

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2021

Last Modified

June 13, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-26956 →

📋 Description

The function xcb::xproto::GetPropertyReply::value() returns a slice of type T where T is an unconstrained type parameter. The raw bytes received from the X11 server are interpreted as the requested type. The users of the xcb crate are advised to only call this function with the intended types. These are u8, u16, and u32.

This issue is tracked here: https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/issues/95

🎯 Affected products1

rust/xcb:< 1.0.0

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26956
https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/653
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0019.html
https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/issues/95
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mp6r-fgw2-rxfx