HIGH7.5

GHSA-24g6-5rx7-58wj

Missing Initialization of Resource in pnet

Details

An issue was discovered in the pnet crate before 0.27.2 for Rust. There is a segmentation fault (upon attempted dereference of an uninitialized descriptor) because of an erroneous IcmpTransportChannelIterator compiler optimization.

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Affected packages

crates.io/pnet

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.27.2

Upgrade pnet to 0.27.2 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25054[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/issues/449[WEB]
https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet[WEB]
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/pnet/RUSTSEC-2019-0037.md[WEB]
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0037.html[WEB]