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GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2 json

Diesel's SQLite backend has possible UTF-8 corruption

published 6mo ago modified 4mo ago also RUSTSEC-2026-0111

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Summary

Diesel uses the `sqlite3_value_text` function to receive strings from SQLite while deserializing query results. We misinterpreted the corresponding [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/c3ref/value_blob.html) documentation that this function always returns a UTF-8 encoded string values as `*const c_char`. Based on that we used `str::from_utf8_unchecked` to construct a Rust string slice without any additional UTF-8 checks in place. It turned out that this function doesn't always return correct UTF-8 strings. For field of the SQLite side storage type `BLOB` this pointer can contain arbitrary bytes, which makes the usage of `str::from_utf8_unchecked` unsound as this violates the safety contract of `str` to only contain valid UTF-8 encoded Strings.

## Mitigation

The preferred mitigation to the outlined problem is to update to a Diesel version 2.3.8 or newer, which includes fixes for the problem.

## Resolution

Diesel now correctly checks whether the provides byte buffer is actually valid UTF-8, instead of relying on SQLite's documentation. This fix is included in the `2.3.8` release.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io diesel 2.3.8

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Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io diesel
<2.3.8
>=0.0.0-0, <2.3.8
2.3.8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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