CVE-2020-25016 (GCVE-0-2020-25016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-29 15:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:26
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Summary
A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2362 records in the last 180 days details
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