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CVE-2020-36317 (GCVE-0-2020-36317)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-11 19:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:23
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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