RUSTSEC-2019-0005

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    RUSTSEC-2019-0005

    Published: 15 Jun 2019Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    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.

    References: https://crates.io/crates/pancurses, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0005.html, https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pancurses

    Purl: pkg:cargo/pancurses

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.0.0-0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    RUSTSEC-2019-0005 | CVE-DB