rustsec-2020-0061
Vulnerability from osv_rustsec
Published
2020-05-03 12:00
Modified
2023-06-13 13:10
Summary
futures_task::noop_waker_ref can segfault due to dereferencing a NULL pointer
Details

Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.

This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn't accessible from the main thread.

Reproduction Example (from issue):

use futures_task::noop_waker_ref;
fn main() {
    let waker = std::thread::spawn(|| noop_waker_ref()).join().unwrap();
    waker.wake_by_ref();
}

The flaw was corrected by using a OnceCell::Lazy<> wrapper around the noop waker instead of thread-local storage.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "categories": [
          "denial-of-service"
        ],
        "cvss": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
        "informational": null
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "affected_functions": null,
        "affects": {
          "arch": [],
          "functions": [
            "futures_task::noop_waker_ref"
          ],
          "os": []
        }
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "futures-task",
        "purl": "pkg:cargo/futures-task"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.0.0-0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.3.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-35907",
    "GHSA-p9m5-3hj7-cp5r"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
  },
  "details": "Affected versions of the crate used a `UnsafeCell` in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference,\nassuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.\n\nThis resulted in a segmentation fault crash if `Waker::wake_by_ref()` was called on a waker returned from another thread due to \nit attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn\u0027t accessible from the main thread.\n\nReproduction Example (from issue):\n```rust\nuse futures_task::noop_waker_ref;\nfn main() {\n    let waker = std::thread::spawn(|| noop_waker_ref()).join().unwrap();\n    waker.wake_by_ref();\n}\n```\n\nThe flaw was corrected by using a `OnceCell::Lazy\u003c\u003e` wrapper around the noop waker instead of thread-local storage.",
  "id": "RUSTSEC-2020-0061",
  "modified": "2023-06-13T13:10:24Z",
  "published": "2020-05-03T12:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/futures-task"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0061.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/futures-rs/issues/2091"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "futures_task::noop_waker_ref can segfault due to dereferencing a NULL pointer"
}


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