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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36323: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36323: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/14/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

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.

Solution(s)

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