CVE-2020-15254 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Crossbeam
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 16
Latest updateAug 25
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 c…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages7 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5📋Vendor Advisories
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CVE-2020-15254: firefox - Crossbeam is a set of tools for concurrent programming. In crossbeam-channel bef...↗2020