ghsa-5gmm-6m36-r7jh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-04-05 15:41
Modified
2025-07-28 15:54
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
Summary
transpose: Buffer overflow due to integer overflow
Details

Given the function transpose::transpose: rust 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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "transpose"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.1.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.2.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-53156"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-120",
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-05T15:41:34Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Given the function `transpose::transpose`:\n```rust\nfn transpose\u003cT: Copy\u003e(input: \u0026[T], output: \u0026mut [T], input_width: usize, input_height: usize)\n```\n\nThe 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()`.\nAs 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.\n\nExploiting 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.",
  "id": "GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh",
  "modified": "2025-07-28T15:54:18Z",
  "published": "2024-04-05T15:41:34Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53156"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/issues/11"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/commit/c4bcd39fabca9a31a401d0cc42d4090869b5a37a"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0080.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "transpose: Buffer overflow due to integer overflow"
}


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