RLSA-2021:3063

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    RLSA-2021:3063

    Published: 10 Aug 2021Last Modified: 5 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: rust-toolset:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

    Details: Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rust (1.52.1). (BZ#1953002) Security Fix(es): * rust: optimization for joining strings can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (CVE-2020-36323) * rust: heap-based buffer overflow in read_to_end() because it does not validate the return value from Read in an unsafe context (CVE-2021-28875) * rust: panic safety issue in Zip implementation (CVE-2021-28876) * rust: memory safety violation in Zip implementation for nested iter::Zips (CVE-2021-28877) * rust: memory safety violation in Zip implementation when next_back() and next() are used together (CVE-2021-28878) * rust: integer overflow in the Zip implementation can lead to a buffer overflow (CVE-2021-28879) * rust: double free in Vec::from_iter function if freeing the element panics (CVE-2021-31162) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. For information on usage, see Using Rust Toolset linked in the References section.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rust

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rust?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:1.52.1-1.module+el8.4.0+641+ca238f88

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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