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CVE-2019-12410 (red-arrow): Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

ADVISORIES

GEM

red-arrow

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

  • < 0.12.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 0.15.1

DESCRIPTION

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory could potentially be shared if are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

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