QID 239287

Date Published: 2021-05-20

QID 239287: Red Hat Update for rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:1935)

Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rust (1.49.0). (BZ#1896712)

Security Fix(es): rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318) rust: memory safety violation in String::retain()
(CVE-2020-36317)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:1935 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239287

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1935 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1935?language=en