Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting pyarrow package, versions [0.12.0,0.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.28% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYARROW-483026
  • published8 Nov 2019
  • disclosed8 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-12410  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyarrow to version 0.15.1 or higher.

Overview

pyarrow is a Python API for functionality provided by the Arrow C++ libraries, along with tools for Arrow integration and interoperability with pandas, NumPy, and other software in the Python ecosystem.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable. Leaves 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1