CVE-2020-35860: NULL Pointer Dereference in cbox

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the cbox crate through 2020-03-19 for Rust. The CBox API allows dereferencing raw pointers without a requirement for unsafe code.

References

github.com/TomBebbington/cbox-rs
github.com/TomBebbington/cbox-rs/issues/2
github.com/advisories/GHSA-3vjm-36rr-7qrq
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35860
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0005.html

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