Bug 1148282 (CVE-2019-15553)

Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2019-15553: rust-memoffset: offset_of and span_of can cause exposure of uninitialized memory
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Alexandros Toptsoglou <atoptsoglou>
Component: SecurityAssignee: Sasi Olin <hel>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P4 - Low    
Version: Current   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/241165/
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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-08-27 07:52:51 UTC
CVE-2019-15553

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-15553
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15553
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0011.html
https://github.com/Gilnaa/memoffset/issues/9#issuecomment-505461490