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Use-after-free in chttp

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 6, 2023

Package

cargo chttp (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.1.1, < 0.1.3

Patched versions

0.1.3

Description

The From implementation for Vec was not properly implemented, returning a vector backed by freed memory. This could lead to memory corruption or be exploited to cause undefined behavior.

A fix was published in version 0.1.3.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 9, 2019
Reviewed Aug 19, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021
Last updated Nov 6, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-16140

GHSA ID

GHSA-5rrv-m36h-qwf8

Source code

Credits

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