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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS13Z3JnLTVoNTYtamcyN84AArsv
Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist
On certain platforms, if a user has more than 16 groups, the
nix::unistd::getgrouplist
function will call the libc getgrouplist
function with a length parameter greater than the size of the buffer it
provides, resulting in an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption.
The libc getgrouplist
function takes an in/out parameter ngroups
specifying the size of the group buffer. When the buffer is too small to
hold all of the reqested user's group memberships, some libc
implementations, including glibc and Solaris libc, will modify ngroups
to indicate the actual number of groups for the user, in addition to
returning an error. The version of nix::unistd::getgrouplist
in nix
0.16.0 and up will resize the buffer to twice its size, but will not
read or modify the ngroups
variable. Thus, if the user has more than
twice as many groups as the initial buffer size of 8, the next call to
getgrouplist
will then write past the end of the buffer.
The issue would require editing /etc/groups to exploit, which is usually
only editable by the root user.
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS13Z3JnLTVoNTYtamcyN84AArsv
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 2 years ago
Updated: 11 months ago
Identifiers: GHSA-wgrg-5h56-jg27
References:
- https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/issues/1541
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0119.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgrg-5h56-jg27
Blast Radius: 0.0
Affected Packages
cargo:nix
Dependent packages: 1,561Dependent repositories: 23,155
Downloads: 138,908,848 total
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0.22.0, < 0.22.2, >= 0.21.0, < 0.21.2, >= 0.16.0, < 0.20.2
Fixed in: 0.22.2, 0.21.2, 0.20.2
All affected versions: 0.16.0, 0.16.1, 0.17.0, 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.19.1, 0.20.0, 0.20.1, 0.21.0, 0.21.1, 0.22.0, 0.22.1
All unaffected versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.3.9, 0.3.10, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.15.0, 0.20.2, 0.21.2, 0.22.2, 0.22.3, 0.23.0, 0.23.1, 0.23.2, 0.24.0, 0.24.1, 0.24.2, 0.24.3, 0.25.0, 0.25.1, 0.26.0, 0.26.1, 0.26.2, 0.26.3, 0.26.4, 0.27.0, 0.27.1, 0.28.0