PT-2018-15491 · Rust+1 · Rust+1

Published 2018-12-18 · Updated 2021-08-25 · CVE-2018-20998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions arrayfire versions prior to 3.6.0

Description The issue is related to the addition of the repr() attribute to an enum, which is mishandled and leads to memory corruption. This problem occurs when using the MSVC toolchain and is interlinked with the version of Rust being used. The issue started to appear since Rust version 1.28.

Recommendations For arrayfire versions prior to 3.6.0, update to version 3.6.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider using Rust versions 1.27 or earlier with arrayfire crates version 3.5.0 or earlier.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20998

GHSA-69FV-GW6G-8CCG

PYSEC-2019-144

RUSTSEC-2018-0011

Affected Products

Rust

Arrayfire

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2019-144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-69fv-gw6g-8ccg · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20998 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2018-0011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust · Note
• https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust/commit/a5256f3e5e23b83eaad69699e0b04653aba04fb8 · Note
• https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-rust/pull/177 · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/arrayfire/PYSEC-2019-144.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-69fv-gw6g-8ccg · Note
• https://crates.io/crates/arrayfire · Note
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0011.html · Note