Use after free in portaudio-rs · CVE-2019-16881 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Use after free in portaudio-rs

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 13, 2023

Package

portaudio-rs (Rust)

Affected versions

< 0.3.2

Patched versions

0.3.2

Description

Affected versions of this crate is not panic safe within callback functions stream_callback and stream_finished_callback. The call to user-provided closure might panic before a mem::forget call, which then causes a use after free that grants attacker to control the callback function pointer. This allows an attacker to construct an arbitrary code execution .

References

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Jun 13, 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