CVE-2019-12410
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.046 · 92 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (5)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-cjw4-2w9r-r8mvMissing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2019-1962019-11-08vendor · osvUS
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.
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references (11)
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/1cnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49f067b1c5fb7493d952580f0d2d032819ba351f7a78743c21126269@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efd8bbf57427d3c303b5316d208a335f8d0c0dbe0dc4c87cfa995073@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12410cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1125075cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/1enisa_euvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49f067b1c5fb7493d952580f0d2d032819ba351f7a78743c21126269%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3Eenisa_euvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efd8bbf57427d3c303b5316d208a335f8d0c0dbe0dc4c87cfa995073%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Eenisa_euvd
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