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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2019-15544

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the protobuf crate before 2.6.0 for Rust. Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published