RUSTSEC-2023-0080

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    RUSTSEC-2023-0080

    Published: 18 Dec 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2025

    Summary: Buffer overflow due to integer overflow in `transpose`

    Details: Given the function `transpose::transpose`: ```rust fn transpose<T: Copy>(input: &[T], output: &mut [T], input_width: usize, input_height: usize) ``` The safety check `input_width * input_height == output.len()` can fail due to `input_width * input_height` overflowing in such a way that it equals `output.len()`. As a result of failing the safety check, memory past the end of `output` is written to. This only occurs in release mode since `*` panics on overflow in debug mode. Exploiting this issue requires the caller to pass `input_width` and `input_height` arguments such that multiplying them overflows, and the overflown result equals the lengths of input and output slices.

    References: https://crates.io/crates/transpose, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0080.html, https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/issues/11

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: transpose

    Purl: pkg:cargo/transpose

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.0.0-0
    Fixed -0.2.3

    Affected versions

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