RUSTSEC-2019-0005

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Source

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0005

Import Source

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2019-0005.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2019-0005

Aliases

CVE-2019-15546
GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq

Published

2019-06-15T12:00:00Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:01:13.919164Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Format string vulnerabilities in `pancurses`

Details

pancurses::mvprintw and pancurses::printw passes a pointer from a rust &str to C, allowing hostile input to execute a format string attack, which trivially allows writing arbitrary data to stack memory.

Database specific

{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}

References

Affected packages

crates.io / pancurses

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.0-0

Ecosystem specific

{
    "affected_functions": null,
    "affects": {
        "os": [],
        "functions": [
            "pancurses::mvprintw",
            "pancurses::printw"
        ],
        "arch": []
    }
}

Database specific

{
    "cvss": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
    "informational": null,
    "categories": []
}