Memory overconsumption in Avro Rust SDK
CVE-2022-36124

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Avro
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 August 2022

Summary

It is possible for a Reader to consume memory beyond the allowed constraints and thus lead to out of memory on the system. This issue affects Rust applications using Apache Avro Rust SDK prior to 0.14.0 (previously known as avro-rs). Users should update to apache-avro version 0.14.0 which addresses this issue.

Affected Version(s)

Apache Avro Rust < 0.14.0

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/kj429rzo1xxjgz058qqqg0y7c...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

This issue was reported to the Apache Avro team by Evan Richter at ForAllSecure and found with Mayhem.
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