CVE-2019-25054

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pnet crate versions prior to 0.27.2

Description The issue is caused by an erroneous compiler optimization of the IcmpTransportChannelIterator, leading to a segmentation fault when attempting to dereference an uninitialized descriptor. This results in a segfault due to the dereference of an uninitialized file descriptor.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.27.2, update to version 0.27.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the use of the IcmpTransportChannelIterator until a patch is available.