| Name | CVE-2020-36317 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 986803 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rustc (PTS) | buster | 1.41.1+dfsg1-1~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.48.0+dfsg1-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.63.0+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| trixie | 1.70.0+dfsg1-7 | fixed |
| sid | 1.70.0+dfsg1-9 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| rustc | source | (unstable) | 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 | | | 986803 |
Notes
[bullseye] - rustc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - rustc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - rustc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/78498
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78499