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Debian: CVE-2020-25016: rust-rgb -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 29, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.

Solution

debian-upgrade-rust-rgb
Title
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