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GHSA-gfgm-chr3-x6px: prettytable-rs: Force cast a &Vec<T> to &[T] may lead to undefined behavior

December 30, 2022

In function Table::as_ref, a reference of vector is force cast to slice. There are multiple problems here:

  1. To guarantee the size is correct, we have to first do Vec::shrink_to_fit. The function requires a mutable reference, so we have to force cast from immutable to mutable, which is undefined behavior (UB).
  2. Even if (1) is sound, &Vec<T> and &[T] still might not have the same layout. Treating them equally may lead to undefinted behavior (UB).

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfgm-chr3-x6px
  • github.com/phsym/prettytable-rs
  • github.com/phsym/prettytable-rs/issues/145
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0074.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.10.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.10.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.0 or above.

Source file

cargo/prettytable-rs/GHSA-gfgm-chr3-x6px.yml

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