HIGH7.5

GHSA-w5cr-frph-hw7f

Use of uninitialized buffer in rkyv

Details

An issue was discovered in the rkyv crate before 0.6.0 for Rust. When an archive is created via serialization, the archive content may contain uninitialized values of certain parts of a struct.

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Affected packages

crates.io/rkyv

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.6.0

Upgrade rkyv to 0.6.0 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31919[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/djkoloski/rkyv/issues/113[WEB]
https://github.com/djkoloski/rkyv/commit/9c65ae9c2c67dd949b5c3aba9b8eba6da802ab7e[WEB]
https://github.com/djkoloski/rkyv/commit/f141b560523a20557db6540576d153010bd18712[WEB]
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0054.html[WEB]