RUSTSEC-2022-0034
Safety issues in `pkcs11`
Impact
The interface of pkcs11 is subject to a number of safety issues, mainly related to handling of raw pointers. Despite presenting a safe interface, many of the functions and methods that rely on inputs which contain pointers (attributes and mechanisms in particular) can lead to segmentation faults and undefined behaviour when those pointers get dereferenced. For more details see the issues referenced below.
Other problems that have been identified by the community include use-after-free (mheese/rust-pkcs11#53) and unsound uses of transmute_copy (mheese/rust-pkcs11#55).
Workarounds
Users of the crate need to be extremely careful in all the calls made to avoid segmentation faults and undefined behaviour due to use of stale pointers. Whenever a pointer is derived from a value and passed to the library, that value's lifetime must be guaranteed to outlast all calls that rely on the pointer. For example, users should avoid creating or converting values within a separate scope (say, in a dedicated function), deriving a pointer, then extracting the pointer from that scope leaving the value to get dropped before passing the pointer to pkcs11.
References
What each source reports
OSV No score
Safety issues in `pkcs11`
Impact
The interface of pkcs11 is subject to a number of safety issues, mainly related to handling of raw pointers. Despite presenting a safe interface, many of the functions and methods that rely on inputs which contain pointers (attributes and mechanisms in particular) can lead to segmentation faults and undefined behaviour when those pointers get dereferenced. For more details see the issues referenced below.
Other problems that have been identified by the community include use-after-free (mheese/rust-pkcs11#53) and unsound uses of transmute_copy (mheese/rust-pkcs11#55).
Workarounds
Users of the crate need to be extremely careful in all the calls made to avoid segmentation faults and undefined behaviour due to use of stale pointers. Whenever a pointer is derived from a value and passed to the library, that value's lifetime must be guaranteed to outlast all calls that rely on the pointer. For example, users should avoid creating or converting values within a separate scope (say, in a dedicated function), deriving a pointer, then extracting the pointer from that scope leaving the value to get dropped before passing the pointer to pkcs11.
References
- Record
RUSTSEC-2022-0034- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
pkcs11crates.io |
0.0.0-0 and later | None known |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
RUSTSEC-2022-0034 is a vulnerability with no CVSS score yet in pkcs11, published July 22, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. No source names a fixed version.