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High · 7.5 CVE-2019-15553 EUVD-2021-1869GHSA-rh89-x75f-rh3cRUSTSEC-2019-0011

Exposure of uninitialized memory in memoffset

Published Aug 26, 2019 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in the memoffset crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. offset_of and span_of can cause exposure of uninitialized memory.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-memoffset 0.5.1-1 —
Debian 13 rust-memoffset 0.5.1-1 —
Debian 12 rust-memoffset 0.5.1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-memoffset No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rust-memoffset No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-memoffset No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-memoffset No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rust-memoffset No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS rust-memoffset No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io memoffset < 0.5.0 0.5.0 GHSA-rh89-x75f-rh3c
crates.io memoffset >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.5.0 0.5.0 RUSTSEC-2019-0011

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