CVE-2021-30454: Uninitialized memory access in outer_cgi

August 25, 2021 (updated June 14, 2022)

An issue was discovered in the outer_cgi crate before 0.2.1 for Rust. A user-provided Read instance receives an uninitialized memory buffer from KeyValueReader.

References

github.com/SolraBizna/outer_cgi
github.com/SolraBizna/outer_cgi/commit/dd59b3066e616a08e756f72de8dc3ab11b7036c4
github.com/SolraBizna/outer_cgi/issues/1
github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vmq-jh76-hq43
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-30454
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0051.html

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