Improper resource allocation In arrow

Description

Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory could potentially be shared if are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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