PT-2019-16428 · Rust · Pnet

Published 2019-06-11 · Updated 2022-01-06 · CVE-2019-25054

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pnet crate versions prior to 0.27.2

Description The issue is caused by an erroneous compiler optimization of the IcmpTransportChannelIterator, leading to a segmentation fault when attempting to dereference an uninitialized descriptor. This results in a segfault due to the dereference of an uninitialized file descriptor.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.27.2, update to version 0.27.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the use of the IcmpTransportChannelIterator until a patch is available.

Fix

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-908

CWE-909

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-25054

GHSA-24G6-5RX7-58WJ

GHSA-R6FF-2Q3C-V3PV

RUSTSEC-2019-0037

Affected Products

Pnet

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-25054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r6ff-2q3c-v3pv · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25054 · Security Note
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0037.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-24g6-5rx7-58wj · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2019-0037 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/pull/455 · Note
• https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet · Note
• https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/issues/449 · Note
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/pnet/RUSTSEC-2019-0037.md · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/25042 · Telegram Post
• https://crates.io/crates/pnet · Note