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CVE-2021-38192: Overflow in prost-types

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

Affected versions of this crate contained a bug in which untrusted input could cause an overflow and panic when converting a Timestamp to SystemTime. It is recommended to upgrade to prost-types v0.8 and switch the usage of From for SystemTime to TryFrom for SystemTime.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-x4qm-mcjq-v2gf
  • github.com/tokio-rs/prost/commit/59f2a7311dd6540696bfd0145f5281ce495f4385
  • github.com/tokio-rs/prost/issues/438
  • github.com/tokio-rs/prost/pull/439
  • github.com/tokio-rs/prost/tree/master/prost-types
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38192
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0073.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Source file

cargo/prost-types/CVE-2021-38192.yml

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