| Name | CVE-2020-25016 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 969213 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rust-rgb (PTS) | buster, bullseye | 0.8.11-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 0.8.36-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| rust-rgb | source | (unstable) | 0.8.36-1 | | | 969213 |
Notes
[bullseye] - rust-rgb <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - rust-rgb <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0029.html
https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35