Bug 864025 – app-misc/weggli: 'cargo audit' reports one or more bundled CRATES as vulnerable

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2022-08-06 15:29:27 UTC]

Dear maintainer(s),
'cargo audit' reports one or more bundled CRATES as vulnerable.
To reproduce please install dev-util/cargo-audit and run:
cargo audit --file Cargo.lock
where Cargo.lock is generated during the build of this package.

For simplicity, I'm attaching here the content of 'cargo audit' here:

      Loaded 433 security advisories (from /tmp/advisory-db)
    Scanning Cargo.lock for vulnerabilities (113 crate dependencies)
Crate:     chrono
Version:   0.4.19
Title:     Potential segfault in `localtime_r` invocations
Date:      2020-11-10
ID:        RUSTSEC-2020-0159
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0159
Solution:  Upgrade to >=0.4.20
Dependency tree:
chrono 0.4.19

Crate:     nix
Version:   0.17.0
Title:     Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist
Date:      2021-09-27
ID:        RUSTSEC-2021-0119
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0119
Solution:  Upgrade to ^0.20.2 OR ^0.21.2 OR ^0.22.2 OR >=0.23.0
Dependency tree:
nix 0.17.0

Crate:     regex
Version:   1.5.4
Title:     Regexes with large repetitions on empty sub-expressions take a very long time to parse
Date:      2022-03-08
ID:        RUSTSEC-2022-0013
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0013
Solution:  Upgrade to >=1.5.5
Dependency tree:
regex 1.5.4

Crate:     time
Version:   0.1.44
Title:     Potential segfault in the time crate
Date:      2020-11-18
ID:        RUSTSEC-2020-0071
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0071
Solution:  Upgrade to >=0.2.23
Dependency tree:
time 0.1.44

Crate:     difference
Version:   2.0.0
Warning:   unmaintained
Title:     difference is unmaintained
Date:      2020-12-20
ID:        RUSTSEC-2020-0095
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0095
Dependency tree:
difference 2.0.0

Crate:     serde_cbor
Version:   0.11.2
Warning:   unmaintained
Title:     serde_cbor is unmaintained
Date:      2021-08-15
ID:        RUSTSEC-2021-0127
URL:       https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0127
Dependency tree:
serde_cbor 0.11.2

error: 4 vulnerabilities found!
warning: 2 allowed warnings found

[Comment 1 Matthew Smith 2022-08-12 18:02:18 UTC]

weggli-0.2.4 still has the vulnerable crates in its lockfile.

Unsure how impactful these vulnerabilities as they are used in this package, but I will try and find the time to update them and send a patch upstream. (I imagine that chrono-0.4.19 -> chrono-0.4.20 will be trivial, while nix-0.17.0->nix-0.24.2 will require changes.)