CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-36323
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
In 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.
Affected configurations
• rust-lang rust (< 1.52.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80335 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728#issuecomment-821549174 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728#issuecomment-824904190 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CZ337CM4GFJLRDFVQCGC7J25V65JXOG5/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TFUO3URYCO73D2Q4WYJBWAMJWGGVXQO4/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZG65GUW6Z2CYOQHF7T3TB5CZKIX6ZJE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80335 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728#issuecomment-821549174 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/81728#issuecomment-824904190 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CZ337CM4GFJLRDFVQCGC7J25V65JXOG5/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TFUO3URYCO73D2Q4WYJBWAMJWGGVXQO4/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZG65GUW6Z2CYOQHF7T3TB5CZKIX6ZJE/ lists.fedoraproject.org