CVE-2021-28030: Use of Uninitialized Resource in truetype

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the truetype crate before 0.30.1 for Rust. Attackers can read the contents of uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read operation within Tape::take_bytes.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7q4-97x4-4qw2
github.com/bodoni/truetype
github.com/bodoni/truetype/issues/11
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28030
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0029.html

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