CVE-2020-25016

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
• CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory