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.
Published: 2021-04-11
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23859 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.
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Redhat Devtools Enterprise Linux
Rust-lang Rust
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T17:23:10.174Z

Reserved: 2021-04-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-36317

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-11T20:15:12.390

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:29:15.670

Link: CVE-2020-36317

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-36317 - Bugzilla

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