Unchecked Return Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rustc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-RUSTC-1615864
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed11 Apr 2021

Introduced: 11 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-28875  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-252  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rustc package and not the rustc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In the standard library in Rust before 1.50.0, read_to_end() does not validate the return value from Read in an unsafe context. This bug could lead to a buffer overflow.