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GHSA-9cc5-2pq7-hfj8: xmas-elf potential out-of-bounds read with a malformed ELF file and the HashTable API.

March 26, 2025 (updated October 31, 2025)

Affected versions of this crate only validated the index argument of HashTable::get_bucket and HashTable::get_chain against the input-controlled bucket_count and chain_count fields, but not against the size of the ELF section. As a result, a malformed ELF file could trigger out-of-bounds reads in a consumer of the HashTable API by setting these fields to inappropriately large values that would fall outside the relevant hash table section, and by introducing correspondingly out-of-bounds hash table indexes elsewhere in the ELF file.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-9cc5-2pq7-hfj8
  • github.com/nrc/xmas-elf
  • github.com/nrc/xmas-elf/commit/57685c35512a57269086314a42a70441af4ef451
  • github.com/nrc/xmas-elf/issues/86
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0018.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.10

Fixed versions

  • 0.10

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Source file

cargo/xmas-elf/GHSA-9cc5-2pq7-hfj8.yml

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