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CVE-2021-45682:
Rust vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
An issue was discovered in the bronzedb-protocol crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The vulnerability involves the ReadKVExt implementation which may read from uninitialized memory locations (NVD, RustSec). The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2021-45682 and was disclosed on December 26, 2021.
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from passing an uninitialized buffer to a user-provided Read implementation. The ReadKVExt implementation can read from uninitialized memory locations, which can produce undefined values and lead to undefined behavior. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 9.8 CRITICAL (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows arbitrary Read implementations to read from uninitialized buffer (memory exposure) and return incorrect number of bytes written to the buffer. Reading from uninitialized memory produces undefined values that can quickly invoke undefined behavior (RustSec).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of the latest available information, there are no patched versions available for this vulnerability (RustSec).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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