HIGH7.5

GHSA-c9h5-hf8r-m97x

Dangling reference in flatbuffers

Details

An issue was discovered in the flatbuffers crate through 2020-04-11 for Rust. read_scalar (and read_scalar_at) can transmute values without unsafe blocks.

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Affected packages

crates.io/flatbuffers

Introduced in: 0.4.0Fixed in: 2.0.0

Upgrade flatbuffers to 2.0.0 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35864[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/5825[WEB]
https://github.com/google/flatbuffers[PACKAGE]
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0009.html[WEB]