CVE-2019-12410

HIGH

Apache Arrow <0.14.1 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

References (3)

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49f067b1c5fb7493d952580f0d2d032819ba351f7a78743c21126269%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/1

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efd8bbf57427d3c303b5316d208a335f8d0c0dbe0dc4c87cfa995073%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0528

EPSS Percentile 90.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-909

Status published

Products (3)

apache/arrow 0.12.0 - 0.14.1

pypi/pyarrow 0.12.0 - 0.15.1PyPI

rubygems/red-arrow 0.12.0 - 0.15.1RubyGems

Published Nov 08, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026