NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting lru package, versions >=0.9.0 <0.16.3
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- published8 Jan 2026
- disclosed7 Jan 2026
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Introduced: 7 Jan 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade lru to version 0.16.3 or higher.
Overview
lru is an an implementation of a LRU cache. The cache supports put, get, get_mut and pop operations, all of which are O(1).
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the IterMut iterator implementation. An attacker can cause undefined behavior or memory safety issues by triggering the creation of exclusive references that invalidate shared pointers held internally.