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GHSA-ghc8-5cgm-5rpf: Inventory fails to prohibit standard library access prior to initialization of Rust standard library runtime

September 11, 2023

Affected versions allow arbitrary caller-provided code to execute before the lifetime of main.

If the caller-provided code accesses particular pieces of the standard library that require an initialized Rust runtime, such as std::io or std::thread, these may not behave as documented. Panics are likely; UB is possible.

The flaw was corrected by enforcing that only code written within the inventory crate, which is guaranteed not to access runtime-dependent parts of the standard library, runs before main. Caller-provided code is restricted to running at compile time.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghc8-5cgm-5rpf
  • github.com/dtolnay/inventory
  • github.com/dtolnay/inventory/commit/b853350a3800e38d2cb9950355b80bc8b8d3959c
  • github.com/dtolnay/inventory/pull/43
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0057.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.2.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.2.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.2.0 or above.

Source file

cargo/inventory/GHSA-ghc8-5cgm-5rpf.yml

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