Buffa: Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref
Description
Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. Prior to 0.7.0, a soundness bug in the OwnedView type allowed safe Rust code to trigger a use-after-free: the OwnedView::decode constructor transmuted a borrowed slice to &'static [u8], and the Deref implementation exposed the promoted 'static lifetime on borrowed view fields (such as &'static str and &'static [u8]) to callers, so the borrow checker permitted those references to outlive the OwnedView; once the OwnedView was dropped and its backing buffer freed, the references became dangling, enabling memory corruption, information disclosure of freed heap contents, and cross-thread misuse without any unsafe code in the calling application. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.0.
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References
4- github.com/anthropics/buffa/commit/7dcf50a1a40eca6ed8d6c6dd59f4310aa0d68b0emitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/anthropics/buffa/pull/154mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/anthropics/buffa/releases/tag/v0.7.0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/anthropics/buffa/security/advisories/GHSA-9pwq-gcrx-wghhmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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