RUSTSEC-2024-0407

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    RUSTSEC-2024-0407

    Published: 5 Mar 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2025

    Summary: Fails to ensure slice elements match the slice's declared type

    Details: Affected versions allow populating a DistributedSlice of T with elements of an arbitrary other type that coerces to T. For example, elements of type `&&str` could end up in a slice of type `[&str]`, since `&&str` coerces to `&str` via a deref coercion. The flaw was corrected by implementing typechecking for distributed slice elements in such a way that coercion no longer occurs. The element's type must be a subtype of the slice's declared element type.

    References: https://crates.io/crates/linkme, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0407.html, https://github.com/dtolnay/linkme/issues/82

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linkme

    Purl: pkg:cargo/linkme

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.0.0-0
    Fixed -0.3.24

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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