Description
A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.
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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | rust-rgb | 0.8.36-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | rust-rgb | 0.8.36-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | rust-rgb | 0.8.36-1 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | rust-rgb | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | rgb | >= 0.5.4, < 0.8.20 | 0.8.20 | GHSA-g4rw-8m5q-6453 |