GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/10/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq

Aliases

RUSTSEC-2024-0377

Published

2024-10-09T14:34:24Z

Modified

2025-10-28T06:29:25.627925Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Databento Binary Encoding (DBN) has a heap buffer overflow using c_chars_to_str function

Details

The heap-buffer-overflow is triggered in the strlen() function when handling the c_chars_to_str function in the dbn crate. This vulnerability occurs because the CStr::from_ptr() function in Rust assumes that the provided C string is null-terminated. However, there is no guarantee that the input chars array passed to the ccharsto_str function is properly null-terminated.

If the chars array does not contain a null byte (\0), strlen() will continue to read beyond the bounds of the buffer in search of a null terminator. This results in an out-of-bounds memory read and can lead to a heap-buffer-overflow, potentially causing memory corruption or exposing sensitive information.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-10-09T14:34:24Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-126"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

crates.io / dbn

Package

Name: dbn; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:cargo/dbn

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.22.0