An issue was discovered in the calamine crate before 0.17.0 for Rust. It allows attackers to overwrite heap-memory locations because Vec::set_len is used without proper memory claiming, and this uninitialized memory is used for a user-provided Read operation, as demonstrated by Sectors::get.
References
Link Resource
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0015.html Exploit Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-02-09T22:07:49

Updated: 2021-02-09T22:07:49

Reserved: 2021-02-09T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-26951

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-09T23:15:13.663

Modified: 2022-04-25T20:16:31.450


Link: CVE-2021-26951

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