CVE-2020-15254

Description

Crossbeam is a set of tools for concurrent programming. In crossbeam-channel before version 0.4.4, the bounded channel incorrectly assumes that `Vec::from_iter` has allocated capacity that same as the number of iterator elements. `Vec::from_iter` does not actually guarantee that and may allocate extra memory. The destructor of the `bounded` channel reconstructs `Vec` from the raw pointer based on the incorrect assumes described above. This is unsound and causing deallocation with the incorrect capacity when `Vec::from_iter` has allocated different sizes with the number of iterator elements. This has been fixed in crossbeam-channel 0.4.4.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-119
• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory