Reported

January 7, 2024

Issued

January 22, 2024 (last modified: February 10, 2024)

Package

threadalone (crates.io)

Type

INFO Unsound

Aliases

• GHSA-w59h-378f-2frm

References

• https://github.com/cr0sh/threadalone/issues/1

Patched

• >=0.2.1

Description

Affected versions can run the Drop impl of a non-Send type on a different thread than it was created on.

The flaw occurs when a stderr write performed by the threadalone crate fails, for example because stderr is redirected to a location on a filesystem that is full, or because stderr is a pipe that has been closed by the reader.

Dropping a non-Send type on the wrong thread is unsound. If used with a type such as a pthread-based MutexGuard, the consequence is undefined behavior. If used with Rc, there would be a data race on the reference count, which is likewise undefined behavior.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.