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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
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-4432
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 13:58 UTC · Revision 1

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Ring: some aes functions may panic when overflow checking is enabled in ring

core-osv · Original source

Published 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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