GHSA-MMC9-PWM7-QJ5W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-08-25 20:56 – Updated: 2021-08-18 20:45
VLAI
Summary
Unaligned memory access in rand_core
Details

Impact

Affected versions of this crate violated alignment when casting byte slices to integer slices, resulting in undefined behavior. rand_core::BlockRng::next_u64 and rand_core::BlockRng::fill_bytes are affected.

Patches

The flaw was corrected by Ralf Jung and Diggory Hardy for rand_core >= 0.4.2.

Workarounds

None.

References

See Rand's changelog.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, open an issue in the Rand repository.

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  "affected": [
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "rand_core"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.4.0"
            },
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              "fixed": "0.4.2"
            }
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        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "rand_core"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.3.1"
            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-25576"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-704"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-08-18T20:45:24Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\nAffected versions of this crate violated alignment when casting byte slices to integer slices, resulting in undefined behavior. `rand_core::BlockRng::next_u64` and `rand_core::BlockRng::fill_bytes` are affected.\n\n### Patches\nThe flaw was corrected by Ralf Jung and Diggory Hardy for `rand_core \u003e= 0.4.2`.\n\n### Workarounds\nNone.\n\n### References\nSee [Rand\u0027s changelog](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/blob/master/rand_core/CHANGELOG.md#050---2019-06-06).\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, [open an issue in the Rand repository](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/issues/new/choose).\n\n",
  "id": "GHSA-mmc9-pwm7-qj5w",
  "modified": "2021-08-18T20:45:24Z",
  "published": "2021-08-25T20:56:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rust-random/rand/security/advisories/GHSA-mmc9-pwm7-qj5w"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/rust-random/rand"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rust-random/rand/blob/master/rand_core/CHANGELOG.md#050---2019-06-06"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0035.html"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Unaligned memory access in rand_core"
}



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