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CVE-2020-36323

API soundness issue in join() implementation of [Borrow<str>]

Reported
Issued
Package
std
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
Details
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36323
Patched
  • >=1.52.0
Unaffected
  • <1.28.0

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.