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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLW1jcmYtN2hmOS1mNnE1

Unchecked vector pre-allocation

Affected versions of this crate pre-allocate memory on deserializing raw buffers without checking whether there is sufficient data available. This allows an attacker to do denial-of-service attacks by sending small msgpack messages that allocate gigabytes of memory.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mcrf-7hf9-f6q5
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 3 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

Identifiers: GHSA-mcrf-7hf9-f6q5
References:

• https://github.com/3Hren/msgpack-rust/issues/151
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2017-0006.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mcrf-7hf9-f6q5

Repository: https://github.com/3Hren/msgpack-rust
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages