RingBuffer can create multiple mutable references and cause data races

The RingBuffer type retrieves mutable references from the DataProvider in a non-atomic manner, potentially allowing the creation of multiple mutable references. RingBuffer also implements the Send and Sync traits for all types T. This allows undefined behavior from the aliased mutable references ...

PT-2020-17652

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions distrustor crate through 2020-12-17 Description The issue arises from the RingBuffer type in the distrustor crate, which does not properly limit the number of mutable references. This is due to the non-atomic manner in which RingBuffer retriev...

CVE-2019-10567: Undefined Security Weakness

There is a way to deceive the GPU kernel driver into thinking there is room in the GPU ringbuffer and overwriting existing commands could allow unintended GPU opcodes to be executed in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile,...

CVE-2017-8924

The edgebulkincallback function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information in the dmesg ringbuffer and syslog from uninitialized kernel memory by using a crafted USB device posing as an ioti USB serial device to trigger an...

PT-2016-7985

Background MirageOS is a library operating system using cooperative multitasking, which can be executed as a guest of the Xen hypervisor. Virtual devices, such as a network device, share memory between MirageOS and the hypervisor. MirageOS allocates and grants the hypervisor access to a ringbuffe...