Reported

April 29, 2017

Issued

July 6, 2021

Package

std

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• thread-safety

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-20004

Patched

• >=1.19.0

Unaffected

• <1.0.0

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.