Out-of-Bounds Affecting rustc package, versions <1.53.0+dfsg1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-RUSTC-11767530
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed11 Apr 2021

Introduced: 11 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-36317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 rustc to version 1.53.0+dfsg1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rustc package and not the rustc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1