CVE-2019-12410

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2019-12410

To remediate CVE-2019-12410, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.15.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.15.0 or later
• —upgrade to 0.15.1 or later

Is CVE-2019-12410 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 5.3%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (3)

• >= 0.12.0, < 0.15.1
• >= 0.12.0, < 0.15.0
• >= 0.12.0, < 0.15.1

CVSS scores

References (8)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-cjw4-2w9r-r8mv
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12410
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/arrow
• WEBgithub.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyarrow/PYSEC-2019-196.yaml