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🛡️ RUSTSEC-2023-0021 — stb-image

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

NULL pointer dereference in stb_image

A bug in error handling in the stb_image C library could cause a NULL pointer dereference when attempting to load an invalid or unsupported image file. This is fixed in version 0.2.5 and later of the stb_image Rust crate, by patching the C code to correctly handle NULL pointers.

Thank you to GitHub user 0xdd96 for finding and fixing this vulnerability.

Affected software

RUSTSEC-2023-0021 is recorded against 1 package.

  • stb-image

Timeline and source

Published on 19 March 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

crates.io (Package)
rustsec.org (Advisory)
github.com (Web)

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-03-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
stb-image — —

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