CVE-2020-15254

critical
Published 2020-06-26 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

Crossbeam is a set of tools for concurrent programming. In crossbeam-channel before version 0.4.4, the bounded channel incorrectly assumes that `Vec::from_iter` has allocated capacity that same as the number of iterator elements. `Vec::from_iter` does not actually guarantee that and may allocate extra memory. The destructor of the `bounded` channel reconstructs `Vec` from the raw pointer based on the incorrect assumes described above. This is unsound and causing deallocation with the incorrect capacity when `Vec::from_iter` has allocated different sizes with the number of iterator elements. This has been fixed in crossbeam-channel 0.4.4.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15254

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed82.0-1
debian debiansidfixed82.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
rust crates.iocrossbeam-channel
rust crates.iocrossbeam-channel>=0.4.3,<0.4.40.4.4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.