What is GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38?

GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Out of bounds write in calamine

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38 cover?

GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-26951. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38?

GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38?

GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38 affects 1 product, including: rust/calamine:\u003c 0.17.0.

GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38CriticalCVSS 9.8

Out of bounds write in calamine

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2021

Last Modified

February 3, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-26951 →

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in the calamine crate before 0.17.0 for Rust. It allows attackers to overwrite heap-memory locations because Vec::set_len is used without proper memory claiming, and this uninitialized memory is used for a user-provided Read operation, as demonstrated by Sectors::get.

🎯 Affected products1

rust/calamine:< 0.17.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26951
https://github.com/tafia/calamine/issues/199
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0015.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ppqp-78xx-3r38