CVE-2020-36317
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2020-36317 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2021-04-11 20:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2022-06-28 14:11:00 UTC |
| Description | In the standard library in Rust before 1.49.0, String::retain() function has a panic safety problem. It allows creation of a non-UTF-8 Rust string when the provided closure panics. This bug could result in a memory safety violation when other string APIs assume that UTF-8 encoding is used on the same string. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-787
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| String::retain allows safely creating invalid (non-utf8) strings when abusing panic · Issue #78498 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub | MISC | github.com | |
| Prevent String::retain from creating non-utf8 strings when abusing panic by SkiFire13 · Pull Request #78499 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub | MISC | github.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 159229 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:ol8 (ELSA-2021-1935)
- 239287 Red Hat Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:1935)
- 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
- 900062 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for rust 1.47.0
- 902881 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rust (4080)
- 940382 AlmaLinux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALSA-2021:1935)
- 960878 Rocky Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2021:1935)