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Ring: some aes functions may panic when overflow checking is enabled in ring
Type: advisorySources: OSV
A flaw was found in Rust's Ring package. A panic may be triggered when overflow checking is enabled. In the QUIC protocol, this flaw allows an attacker to induce this panic by sending a specially crafted packet. It will likely occur unintentionally in 1 out of every 2**32 packets sent or received.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-4432
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 13:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Ring: some aes functions may panic when overflow checking is enabled in ring
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 May 2025, 16:06 UTC
A flaw was found in Rust's Ring package. A panic may be triggered when overflow checking is enabled. In the QUIC protocol, this flaw allows an attacker to induce this panic by sending a specially crafted packet. It will likely occur unintentionally in 1 out of every 2**32 packets sent or received.
osv:CVE-2025-4432
Complete source record
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