CVE-2021-45691: Use of Uninitialized Resource in messagepack-rs

January 6, 2022 (updated January 7, 2022)

An issue was discovered in the messagepack-rs crate through 2021-01-26 for Rust. deserialize_string may read from uninitialized memory locations.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwfh-j623-m97h
github.com/otake84/messagepack-rs
github.com/otake84/messagepack-rs/issues/2
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45691
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/messagepack-rs/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.md
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.html

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