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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2023-50711 EUVD-2024-0293GHSA-875g-mfp6-g7f9RUSTSEC-2024-0002

`serde` deserialization for `FamStructWrapper` lacks bound checks that could potentially lead to out-of-bounds memory access

Published Jan 2, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

vmm-sys-util is a collection of modules that provides helpers and utilities used by multiple rust-vmm components. Starting in version 0.5.0 and prior to version 0.12.0, an issue in the `FamStructWrapper::deserialize` implementation provided by the crate for `vmm_sys_util::fam::FamStructWrapper` can lead to out of bounds memory accesses. The deserialization does not check that the length stored in the header matches the flexible array length. Mismatch in the lengths might allow out of bounds memory access through Rust-safe methods. The issue was corrected in version 0.12.0 by inserting a check that verifies the lengths of compared flexible arrays are equal for any deserialized header and aborting deserialization otherwise. Moreover, the API was changed so that header length can only be modified through Rust-unsafe code. This ensures that users cannot trigger out-of-bounds memory access from Rust-safe code.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rust-vmm vmm-sys-util >= 0.5.0, < 0.12.0 —

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-vmm-sys-util 0.12.1-1 —
Debian 13 rust-vmm-sys-util 0.12.1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-vmm-sys-util No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rust-vmm-sys-util No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-vmm-sys-util No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-vmm-sys-util No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 aws-nitro-enclaves-cli 1.3.0~git1.db34c02-150600.10.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1966-1
SLES 15 SP5 aws-nitro-enclaves-cli 1.3.0~git1.db34c02-150400.3.6.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1984-1
SLES 15 SP5 sevctl 0.4.3-150500.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:0250-1
SLES 15 SP4 aws-nitro-enclaves-cli 1.3.0~git1.db34c02-150400.3.6.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1984-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.0 sevctl 0.4.3-2.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20071-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed sevctl 0.4.3-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13624-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed virtiofsd 1.10.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13645-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 aws-nitro-enclaves-cli 1.3.0~git1.db34c02-150600.10.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1966-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 aws-nitro-enclaves-cli 1.3.0~git1.db34c02-150400.3.6.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1984-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 sevctl 0.4.3-150500.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:0250-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) cloud-hypervisor 32.0-3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io vmm-sys-util >= 0.5.0, < 0.12.0 0.12.0 GHSA-875g-mfp6-g7f9

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