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

Vulnerability Description

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.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4432
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350655
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4p46-pwfr-66x6
• https://github.com/briansmith/ring
• https://github.com/briansmith/ring/blob/main/RELEASES.md#version-01712-2025-03-05
• https://github.com/briansmith/ring/commit/ec2d3cf1d91f148c84e4806b4f0b3c98f6df3b38
• https://github.com/briansmith/ring/pull/2447
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0009.html