CVE-2020-25016

critical

Description

A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0029.html

https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-29

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical