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FreeBSD: VID-37528379-76A8-11E9-A4FD-00012E582166 (CVE-2019-12083): Rust -- violation of Rust's safety guarantees

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FreeBSD: VID-37528379-76A8-11E9-A4FD-00012E582166 (CVE-2019-12083): Rust -- violation of Rust's safety guarantees

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/09/2019
Created
05/17/2019
Added
05/15/2019
Modified
06/03/2019

Description

The Rust Programming Language Standard Library 1.34.x before 1.34.2 contains a stabilized method which, if overridden, can violate Rust's safety guarantees and cause memory unsafety. If the `Error::type_id` method is overridden then any type can be safely cast to any other type, causing memory safety vulnerabilities in safe code (e.g., out-of-bounds write or read). Code that does not manually implement Error::type_id is unaffected.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rust

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