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CVE-2020-36434: Double free in sys-info

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

Affected versions of sys-info use a static, global, list to store temporary disk information while running. The function that cleans up this list, DFCleanup, assumes a single threaded environment and will try to free the same memory twice in a multithreaded environment. This results in consistent double-frees and segfaults when calling sys_info::disk_info from multiple threads at once. The issue was fixed by moving the global variable into a local scope.

References

  • github.com/FillZpp/sys-info-rs
  • github.com/FillZpp/sys-info-rs/issues/63
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f5j-3mhq-xv58
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36434
  • raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/sys-info/RUSTSEC-2020-0100.md
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0100.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.0 or above.

Impact 9.8 CRITICAL

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-415: Double Free

Source file

cargo/sys-info/CVE-2020-36434.yml

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