GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-ghc8-5cgm-5rpf Inventory fails to prohibit standard library access prior to initialization of Rust standard library runtime
MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- inventory
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2023-09-11
Affected packages
• crates.io inventory: < 0.2.0 → fixed in 0.2.0
Description
Affected versions allow arbitrary caller-provided code to execute before the lifetime of `main`.
If the caller-provided code accesses particular pieces of the standard library that require an initialized Rust runtime, such as `std::io` or `std::thread`, these may not behave as documented. Panics are likely; UB is possible.
The flaw was corrected by enforcing that only code written within the `inventory` crate, which is guaranteed not to access runtime-dependent parts of the standard library, runs before `main`. Caller-provided code is restricted to running at compile time.