GHSA-mcrf-7hf9-f6q5: Unchecked vector pre-allocation

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

Affected versions of this crate pre-allocate memory on deserializing raw buffers without checking whether there is sufficient data available. This allows an attacker to do denial-of-service attacks by sending small msgpack messages that allocate gigabytes of memory.

References

github.com/3Hren/msgpack-rust
github.com/3Hren/msgpack-rust/issues/151
github.com/advisories/GHSA-mcrf-7hf9-f6q5
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2017-0006.html

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