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GHSA-mmc9-pwm7-qj5w
No affected components available
Impact
Affected versions of this crate violated alignment when casting byte slices to integer slices, resulting in undefined behavior. rand_core::BlockRng::next_u64 and rand_core::BlockRng::fill_bytes are affected.
Patches
The flaw was corrected by Ralf Jung and Diggory Hardy for rand_core >= 0.4.2.
Workarounds
None.
References
See Rand's changelog.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, open an issue in the Rand repository.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. Immediate patching or mitigation is required.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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