CVE-2020-35864: Dangling reference in flatbuffers

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the flatbuffers crate through 2020-04-11 for Rust. read_scalar (and read_scalar_at) can transmute values without unsafe blocks.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-c9h5-hf8r-m97x
github.com/google/flatbuffers
github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/5825
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35864
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0009.html

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