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CVE-2019-15544

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Date: August 26, 2019

An issue was discovered in the protobuf crate before 2.6.0 for Rust. Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.

Language: RUST

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/411

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932@%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://crates.io/crates/protobuf

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15544

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf@%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0003.html

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae@%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-15544

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version protobuf - 1.7.5,2.6.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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