Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-12410 - Missing Initialization of Resource vulnerability in Apache Arrow
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 5 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49f067b1c5fb7493d952580f0d2d032819ba351f7a78743c21126269%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49f067b1c5fb7493d952580f0d2d032819ba351f7a78743c21126269%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efd8bbf57427d3c303b5316d208a335f8d0c0dbe0dc4c87cfa995073%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E