CVE-2020-36317
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
2.5
Description
In the standard library in Rust before 1.49.0, String::retain() function has a panic safety problem. It allows creation of a non-UTF-8 Rust string when the provided closure panics. This bug could result in a memory safety violation when other string APIs assume that UTF-8 encoding is used on the same string.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36317
Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1935
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36317.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1:1.49.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.