advisory-db/crates/transpose/RUSTSEC-2023-0080.md

[advisory]
id = "RUSTSEC-2023-0080"
package = "transpose"
date = "2023-12-18"
url = "https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/issues/11"
categories = ["memory-corruption"]
aliases = ["CVE-2023-53156", "GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh"]

[versions]
patched = [">= 0.2.3"]

[affected]
functions = { "transpose::transpose" = [">= 0.1.0"] }

Buffer overflow due to integer overflow in transpose

Given the function transpose::transpose:

fn transpose<T: Copy>(input: &[T], output: &mut [T], input_width: usize, input_height: usize)

The safety check input_width * input_height == output.len() can fail due to input_width * input_height overflowing in such a way that it equals output.len(). As a result of failing the safety check, memory past the end of output is written to. This only occurs in release mode since * panics on overflow in debug mode.

Exploiting this issue requires the caller to pass input_width and input_height arguments such that multiplying them overflows, and the overflown result equals the lengths of input and output slices.