CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20996

Double Free

Published: Aug 26, 2019 | Modified: Aug 30, 2019
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in the crossbeam crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is a double free because of destructor mishandling.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Crossbeam Crossbeam_project * 0.4.1 (excluding)
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu disco *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu eoan *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu groovy *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu hirsute *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu impish *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu kinetic *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu lunar *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu mantic *
Rust-crossbeam-epoch Ubuntu trusty *

Potential Mitigations

References