CVE-2021-45687: Deserialization of Untrusted Data in rust-cpuid

January 6, 2022 (updated January 7, 2022)

An issue was discovered in the raw-cpuid crate before 9.1.1 for Rust. If the serialize feature is used (which is not the the default), a Deserialize operation may lack sufficient validation, leading to memory corruption or a panic.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-w428-f65r-h4q2
github.com/gz/rust-cpuid
github.com/gz/rust-cpuid/issues/43
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45687
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/raw-cpuid/RUSTSEC-2021-0089.md
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0089.html

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