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Debian: CVE-2021-26956: rust-xcb -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 9, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because bytes from an X server can be interpreted as any data type returned by xcb::xproto::GetPropertyReply::value.

Solution

debian-upgrade-rust-xcb
Title
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