CVE-2022-23639

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer and Race Condition in crossbeam-utils

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: February 15, 2022 at 06:20 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:30 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsCrossbeamProject Crossbeam

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

Description

crossbeam-utils provides atomics, synchronization primitives, scoped threads, and other utilities for concurrent programming in Rust. crossbeam-utils prior to version 0.8.7 incorrectly assumed that the alignment of `{i,u}64` was always the same as `Atomic{I,U}64`. However, the alignment of `{i,u}64` on a 32-bit target can be smaller than `Atomic{I,U}64`. This can cause unaligned memory accesses and data race. Crates using `fetch_*` methods with `AtomicCell<{i,u}64>` are affected by this issue. 32-bit targets without `Atomic{I,U}64` and 64-bit targets are not affected by this issue. This has been fixed in crossbeam-utils 0.8.7. There are currently no known workarounds.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.8.7
Affected range stops below 0.8.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.8.7
Affected range stops below 0.8.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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References (3)

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CVSS

8.1HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362NVD-CWE-noinfo

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