CVE-2020-36323
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
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-2020-36323
Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3063
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36323.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1:1.52.0-1 | |
| 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.