# CVE-2020-36512: An issue was discovered in the buffoon crate through 2020-12-31 for Rust.

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2020-0154, GHSA-HMX9-JM3V-33HV, GHSA-V938-QCC9-RWV8
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-26 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- buffoon (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0
- buffoon (crates.io): through 0.5.0

## Description

An issue was discovered in the buffoon crate through 2020-12-31 for Rust. InputStream::read_exact may read from uninitialized memory locations.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, buffoon, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/buffoon/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.md

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