GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-w59h-378f-2frm Unsound sending of non-Send types across threads in threadalone
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- threadalone
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2024-01-23
Affected packages
• crates.io threadalone: < 0.2.1 → fixed in 0.2.1
Description
Affected versions can run the `Drop` impl of a non-Send type on a different
thread than it was created on.
The flaw occurs when a stderr write performed by the `threadalone` crate fails,
for example because stderr is redirected to a location on a filesystem that is
full, or because stderr is a pipe that has been closed by the reader.
Dropping a non-Send type on the wrong thread is unsound. If used with a type
such as a pthread-based `MutexGuard`, [the consequence is undefined
behavior][mutexguard]. If used with `Rc`, there would be a data race on the
reference count, which is likewise undefined behavior.
[mutexguard]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/23465#issuecomment-82730326