Memory Corruption Affecting lever package, versions <0.1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-LEVER-1316320
  • published9 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-36457  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lever to version 0.1.1 or higher.

Overview

lever is a Pillars for Transactional Systems and Data Grids.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Corruption. AtomicBox<T> is a Box type designed to be used across threads, however, it implements the Send and Sync traits for all types T. This allows non-Send types such as Rc and non-Sync types such as Cell to be used across thread boundaries which can trigger undefined behavior and memory corruption.

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