Application crash via discarded partial reads
Published Jul 28, 2025 · Updated Jul 28, 2025
Out-of-bounds array access in Sequoia PGP buffered-reader before 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 through 1.1.4 allows attackers to crash applications. Generic's buffered Read adapter returns an error before already-buffered partial data, violating the parser's repeat-read assumption and leading it to index past the available array. An attacker must control parsed input and trigger the affected partial-read-with-error path; Rust stops the access with a panic, so the result is a process crash without memory disclosure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds array access in Sequoia PGP buffered-reader before 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 through 1.1.4 allows attackers to crash applications. Generic's buffered Read adapter returns an error before already-buffered partial data, violating the parser's repeat-read assumption and leading it to index past the available array. An attacker must control parsed input and trigger the affected partial-read-with-error path; Rust stops the access with a panic, so the result is a process crash without memory disclosure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-53161
- Published
- Jul 28, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Sequoia PGP
- Product
- buffered-reader
- Classifications
- CWE-125, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.0.2
- Affected versionversion=1.1.0 <1.1.5
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