RUSTSEC-2022-0063: Multiple vulnerabilities resulting in out-of-bounds writes

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Multiple vulnerabilities resulting in out-of-bounds writes

Details
Package	linked_list_allocator
Version	0.9.1
URL	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg8p-34w2-j49j
Date	2022-09-07
Patched versions	>=0.10.2

• The heap initialization methods were missing a minimum size check for the given heap size argument. This could lead to out-of-bound writes when a heap was initialized with a size smaller than 3 * size_of::<usize> because of metadata write operations.
• When calling Heap::extend with a size smaller than two usizes (e.g., 16 on x86_64), the size was erroneously rounded up to the minimum size, which could result in an out-of-bounds write.
• Calling Heap::extend on an empty heap tried to construct a heap starting at address 0, which is also an out-of-bounds write.
  • One specific way to trigger this accidentally is to call Heap::new (or a similar constructor) with a heap size that is smaller than two usizes. This was treated as an empty heap as well.
• Calling Heap::extend on a heap whose size is not a multiple of the size of two usizes resulted in unaligned writes. It also left the heap in an unexpected state, which might lead to subsequent issues. We did not find a way to exploit this undefined behavior yet (apart from DoS on platforms that fault on unaligned writes).

See advisory page for additional details.

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