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  1. High, CVSS 8.2crates.ioPublished

    whoami stack buffer overflow on several Unix platforms

    GHSA-w5w5-8vfh-xcjq

    Affected
    • crates.io whoami >= 0.5.3, < 1.5.0
    Fixed in
    1.5.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    With versions of the whoami crate = 0.5.3 and < 1.5.0, calling any of these functions leads to an immediate stack buffer overflow on illumos and Solaris: - whoami::username - whoami::realname - whoami::usernameos - whoami::realnameos With versions of the whoami crate = 0.5.3 and < 1.0.1, calling any of the above functions also leads to a stack buffer overflow on these platforms: - Bitrig - DragonFlyBSD - FreeBSD - NetBSD - OpenBSD This occurs because of an incorrect definition of the passwd struct on those platforms. As a result of this issue, denial of service and data corruption have both been observed in the wild. The issue is possibly exploitable as well. This vulnerability also affects other Unix platforms that aren't Linux or macOS. This issue has been addressed in whoami 1.5.0. For more information, see this GitHub issue.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.5.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →