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GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq: Databento Binary Encoding (DBN) has a heap buffer overflow using c_chars_to_str function

October 9, 2024

The heap-buffer-overflow is triggered in the strlen() function when handling the c_chars_to_str function in the dbn crate. This vulnerability occurs because the CStr::from_ptr() function in Rust assumes that the provided C string is null-terminated. However, there is no guarantee that the input chars array passed to the c_chars_to_str function is properly null-terminated.

If the chars array does not contain a null byte (\0), strlen() will continue to read beyond the bounds of the buffer in search of a null terminator. This results in an out-of-bounds memory read and can lead to a heap-buffer-overflow, potentially causing memory corruption or exposing sensitive information.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq
  • github.com/databento/dbn
  • github.com/databento/dbn/commit/339efb90fdb980920a5e8829008abc1114f4bfdd
  • github.com/databento/dbn/issues/67
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0377.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.22.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.22.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.22.0 or above.

Impact 5.5 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-126: Buffer Over-read

Source file

cargo/dbn/GHSA-pfr9-2p92-qrhq.yml

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