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ELF header parsing library doesn't check for valid offset
GHSA-g6pw-999w-j75m
- Affected
- crates.io elf_rs < 0.3.0
- Fixed in
- 0.3.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- The crate has several unsafe sections that don't perform proper pointer validation. An example can be found in the following function: While this will work perfectly fine if the ELF header is valid, malicious or malformed input can contain a section header offset of an arbitrary size, meaning that the resultant pointer in the unsafe block can point to an artibrary address in the address space of the process. This can result in unpredictable behaviour, and in our fuzz testing, we discovered that it's trivial to cause SIGABRT (signal 6), or SEGV (signal 11). The function should either be marked as unsafe, with a note that the caller is responsible for providing only valid inputs, or it should ideally do the due diligence to ensure that the offset doesn't exceed the bounds of the header (and add additional checks as necessary).
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.3.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.