CVE-2021-45707

rust-nix: An issue was discovered in the nix crate 0.16.0 and later before 0.20.2, 0.21.x before 0.21.2, and 0.22.x before 0.22...

CVE-2021-45707 is fixed in rust-nix on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45707, released December 27, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.

Urgent
CVSS
9.8
critical
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0169
77th percentile

An issue was discovered in the nix crate 0.16.0 and later before 0.20.2, 0.21.x before 0.21.2, and 0.22.x before 0.22.2 for Rust. unistd::getgrouplist has an out-of-bounds write if a user is in more than 16 /etc/groups groups.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
rust-nix · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 0.23.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45707 Dec 27, 2021
rust-nix · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 0.23.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45707 Dec 27, 2021
rust-nix · Debian 14 0.23.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45707 Dec 27, 2021

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