This project might be open to known security vulnerabilities, which can be prevented by tightening the version range of affected dependencies. Find detailed information at the bottom.

Crate rustyline

Dependencies

(14 total, 3 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 bitflags^1.22.5.0out of date
 cfg-if^1.01.0.0up to date
 dirs-next^2.02.0.0up to date
 fs2^0.40.4.3up to date
 libc^0.20.2.153up to date
 log^0.40.4.21up to date
 memchr^2.02.7.2up to date
 nix ⚠️^0.190.28.0out of date
 scopeguard^1.11.2.0up to date
 skim^0.70.10.4out of date
 unicode-segmentation^1.01.11.0up to date
 unicode-width^0.10.1.11up to date
 utf8parse^0.20.2.1up to date
 winapi^0.30.3.9up to date

Dev dependencies

(5 total, 2 outdated)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 assert_matches^1.21.5.0up to date
 doc-comment^0.30.3.3up to date
 env_logger^0.80.11.3out of date
 rustyline-derive^0.4.00.10.0out of date
 tempfile^3.1.03.10.1up to date

Security Vulnerabilities

nix: Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist

RUSTSEC-2021-0119

On certain platforms, if a user has more than 16 groups, the nix::unistd::getgrouplist function will call the libc getgrouplist function with a length parameter greater than the size of the buffer it provides, resulting in an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption.

The libc getgrouplist function takes an in/out parameter ngroups specifying the size of the group buffer. When the buffer is too small to hold all of the requested user's group memberships, some libc implementations, including glibc and Solaris libc, will modify ngroups to indicate the actual number of groups for the user, in addition to returning an error. The version of nix::unistd::getgrouplist in nix 0.16.0 and up will resize the buffer to twice its size, but will not read or modify the ngroups variable. Thus, if the user has more than twice as many groups as the initial buffer size of 8, the next call to getgrouplist will then write past the end of the buffer.

The issue would require editing /etc/groups to exploit, which is usually only editable by the root user.