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rustsec-2019-0006
Vulnerability from osv_rustsec
Published
2019-06-15 12:00
Modified
2023-06-13 13:10
Summary
Buffer overflow and format vulnerabilities in functions exposed without unsafe
Details

ncurses exposes functions from the ncurses library which:

  • Pass buffers without length to C functions that may write an arbitrary amount of data, leading to a buffer overflow. (instr, mvwinstr, etc)
  • Passes rust &str to strings expecting C format arguments, allowing hostile input to execute a format string attack, which trivially allows writing arbitrary data to stack memory (functions in the printw family).

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "categories": [],
        "cvss": null,
        "informational": null
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "affected_functions": null,
        "affects": {
          "arch": [],
          "functions": [
            "ncurses::instr",
            "ncurses::mvprintw",
            "ncurses::mvwinstr",
            "ncurses::mvwprintw",
            "ncurses::printw"
          ],
          "os": []
        }
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "ncurses",
        "purl": "pkg:cargo/ncurses"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.0.0-0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-15547",
    "CVE-2019-15548",
    "GHSA-32v7-ghpr-c8hg",
    "GHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
  },
  "details": "`ncurses` exposes functions from the ncurses library which:\n\n- Pass buffers without length to C functions that may write an arbitrary amount of\n  data, leading to a buffer overflow. (`instr`, `mvwinstr`, etc)\n- Passes rust \u0026str to strings expecting C format arguments, allowing hostile\n  input to execute a format string attack, which trivially allows writing\n  arbitrary data to stack memory (functions in the `printw` family).",
  "id": "RUSTSEC-2019-0006",
  "modified": "2023-06-13T13:10:24Z",
  "published": "2019-06-15T12:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/ncurses"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Buffer overflow and format vulnerabilities in functions exposed without unsafe"
}



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