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RUSTSEC-2026-0400

Use-after-free of a dictionary after a one-shot call on a context with an open stream

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Fix
Fixed in 8.2.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The python-zstandard Python bindings for the Zstandard compression library are affected when an application reuses one context for both streaming and one-shot calls without a reset in between. This can cause decompressed output to contain freed heap memory and can corrupt compressed output.

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The one-shot `DCtx` and `CCtx` methods assumed the C library resets the context, but it leaves an open stream as it is. When a stream was left unfinished on a context, a one-shot call such as `decompress_using_dict` could leave the context pointing at the dictionary borrowed for that call, and the next streaming call resumed the stream against it after it was freed: decompressed output then contained freed heap memory. On the compression side, the stream resumed against the one-shot call's buffers. This requires an application to use one context for both streaming and one-shot calls without a reset in between. The flaw was corrected by resetting the session after one-shot calls whenever a stream may be open.

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Affected versions

  • zstd-safecrates.io

    From 3.0.1 · fixed in 8.2.0

References 4

crates.io

rustsec.org

GitHub · gyscos/zstd-rs