Emergent Misalignment As Prompt Sensitivity: a Research Note

Betley et al. 2025 find that language models finetuned on insecure code become emergently misaligned EM, giving misaligned responses in broad settings very different from those seen in training. However, it remains unclear as to why emergent misalignment occurs. We evaluate insecure models across...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47779

Asterisk is an open-source private branch exchange PBX. Prior to versions 18.26.2, 20.14.1, 21.9.1, and 22.4.1 of Asterisk and versions 18.9-cert14 and 20.7-cert5 of certified-asterisk, SIP requests of the type MESSAGE RFC 3428 authentication do not get proper alignment. An authenticated attacker...

CVE-2020-35903

An issue was discovered in the dync crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. VecCopy allows misaligned element access because u8 is not always the type in question...

CVE-2024-24195

robdns commit d76d2e6 was discovered to contain a misaligned address at /src/zonefile-insertion.c...

CVE-2024-24199

smartdns commit 54b4dc was discovered to contain a misaligned address at smartdns/src/dns.c...

CVE-2024-24198

smartdns commit 54b4dc was discovered to contain a misaligned address at smartdns/src/util.c...

Unsound usages of `u8` type casting in spl-token-swap

The library provides a safe public API unpack to cast u8 array to arbitrary types, which can cause to undefined behaviors. The length check of array can only prevent out-of-bound access on the return type. However, it can't prevent misaligned pointer when casting u8 pointer to a type aligned to...

libafl has unsound usages of `core::slice::from_raw_parts_mut`

The library breaks the safety assumptions when using unsafe API slice::fromrawpartsmut. The pointer passed to fromrawpartsmut is misaligned by casting u8 to u16 raw pointer directly, which is unsound. The bug is patched by using alignoffset, which could make sure the memory address is aligned to ...

PT-2024-40316 · Solana · Solana Program Library

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Solana Program Library affected versions not specified Description: The issue arises from the unpack function in the library, which casts a u8 array to arbitrary types. This can lead to undefined behaviors due to misaligned pointer dereferenc...

PT-2024-40265 · Libafl · Libafl

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: LibAFL versions prior to 0.11.2 Description: The issue arises from the misuse of the slice::from raw parts mut API, where a pointer is misaligned due to a direct cast from u8 to u16 raw pointer, leading to unsound behavior. The problem is...

RUSTSEC-2024-0426 Unsound usages of `u8` type casting

The library provides a safe public API unpack to cast u8 array to arbitrary types, which can cause to undefined behaviors. The length check of array can only prevent out-of-bound access on the return type. However, it can't prevent misaligned pointer when casting u8 pointer to a type aligned to...

Unsound usages of `u8` type casting

The library provides a safe public API unpack to cast u8 array to arbitrary types, which can cause to undefined behaviors. The length check of array can only prevent out-of-bound access on the return type. However, it can't prevent misaligned pointer when casting u8 pointer to a type aligned to...

RUSTSEC-2024-0424 Unsound usages of `core::slice::from_raw_parts_mut`

The library breaks the safety assumptions when using unsafe API slice::fromrawpartsmut. The pointer passed to fromrawpartsmut is misaligned by casting u8 to u16 raw pointer directly, which is unsound. The bug is patched by using alignoffset, which could make sure the memory address is aligned to ...

PT-2024-40969 · Solana · Solana Program Library

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Solana Program Library affected versions not specified Description: The issue arises from the unpack function in the library, which can lead to undefined behavior when casting a u8 array to arbitrary types. This is due to the potential for...

Unsound usages of `std::slice::from_raw_parts`

The library breaks the safety assumptions when using unsafe API std::slice::fromrawparts. First, when using the API in iterator implementation TempFdArrayIterator.next, generic type could be any type, which would create and pass a misaligned pointer to the unsafe API. Second, when validating the...

RUSTSEC-2024-0408 Unsound usages of `std::slice::from_raw_parts`

The library breaks the safety assumptions when using unsafe API std::slice::fromrawparts. First, when using the API in iterator implementation TempFdArrayIterator.next, generic type could be any type, which would create and pass a misaligned pointer to the unsafe API. Second, when validating the...

kernel: pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number

A vulnerability was found in the pstore/ram component of the Linux kernel, which caused crashes when the number of CPU cores was set to an odd number. This issue occurs because the odd-numbered zones became misaligned. This flaw allows a local, authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service...

PT-2024-40952 · Pprof · Pprof

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: pprof versions prior to 0.14.0 Description: The issue arises from the unsafe usage of the std::slice::from raw parts API, specifically in the TempFdArrayIterator.next function and when validating addresses with type c void. This can lead to t...

kernel: ACPI: CPPC: Use access_width over bit_width for system memory accesses

A vulnerability was found in the ACPI subsystem's CPPC driver in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs due to the mishandling of memory access bit width during performance capability calculations, which can lead to misaligned memory accesses and cause kernel panics on affected platforms...

kernel: pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number

A vulnerability was found in the pstore/ram component of the Linux kernel, which caused crashes when the number of CPU cores was set to an odd number. This issue occurs because the odd-numbered zones became misaligned. This flaw allows a local, authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service...