CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-26953

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Feb 09, 2021 | Modified: Feb 16, 2021

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26953
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/908.html

An issue was discovered in the postscript crate before 0.14.0 for Rust. It might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read implementation.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Postscript	Postscript_project	*	0.14.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0017.html

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