CVE-2020-36323

Summary

CVECVE-2020-36323
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-14 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:22:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-134

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Rust-lang Rust All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
API soundness issue in join() implementation of [Borrow<str>] · Issue #80335 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fixes API soundness issue in join() by Qwaz · Pull Request #81728 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fixes API soundness issue in join() by Qwaz · Pull Request #81728 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Fixes API soundness issue in join() by Qwaz · Pull Request #81728 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: rust-1.51.0-3.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159344 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:ol8 (ELSA-2021-3063)
  • 239538 Red Hat Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:3063)
  • 281294 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2021-b1ba54add6)
  • 281295 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2021-d7f74f0250)
  • 281296 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2021-d0ba1901ca)
  • 353979 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for rust : ALAS2-2022-1816
  • 377347 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0061)
  • 501921 Alpine Linux Security Update for rust
  • 505391 Alpine Linux Security Update for rust
  • 900062 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for rust 1.47.0
  • 902939 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rust (4081)
  • 940361 AlmaLinux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALSA-2021:3063)
  • 960098 Rocky Linux Security Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2021:3063)
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