[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1052415: rust-tungstenite: CVE-2023-43669

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: rust-tungstenite
Version: 0.20.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs/issues/376
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for rust-tungstenite.

CVE-2023-43669[0]:
| The Tungstenite crate through 0.20.0 for Rust allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption)
| via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The
| length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g.,
| thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse
| attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-43669
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43669
[1] https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs/issues/376

Regards,
Salvatore