CVE-2020-35907: futures_task::noop_waker_ref can segfault due to dereferencing a NULL pointer
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Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.
This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn’t accessible from the main thread.
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