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CVE-2020-36323

Public on 2021-04-14
Modified on 2022-06-30
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core rust 2022-07-06 03:15 ALAS2-2022-1816

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H