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Ghidra < 12.0.3 - Out-of-Memory in Rust Symbol Demangler via Malformed Symbol

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severity
medium
date
Affecting

  • Ghidra < 12.0.3

CWE
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
CVSS
6.7
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Ze Sheng (@OwenSanzas)
Description
Ghidra before 12.0.3 contains an out-of-memory vulnerability in the rust_demangle function that allocates unbounded output buffers without size limits. Attackers can craft malicious Rust symbol names in binaries to trigger exponential memory allocation, causing process crashes during binary analysis.

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