Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting red-parquet package, versions >=0.12.0, <0.15.1


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.72% (81st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-REDPARQUET-483028
  • published 8 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 8 Nov 2019
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade red-parquet to version 0.15.1 or higher.

Overview

red-parquet is a Parquet bindings of Apache Arrow

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.