Security Vulnerabilities fixed in rust RHSA-2021:1935

Description

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) rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318) rust: memory safety violation in String::retain() (CVE-2020-36317) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. SolutionFor details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Applications

rust

CVE References

CVE-2020-36317 CVE-2020-36318

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1935