CVE-2021-28879

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, the Zip implementation can report an incorrect size due to an integer overflow. This bug can lead to a buffer overflow when a consumed Zip iterator is used again.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2021-28879

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3063

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28879.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.52.0-1
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1

References

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