CVE-2021-45705: Pointer dereference in nanorand

January 6, 2022 (updated January 7, 2022)

An issue was discovered in the nanorand crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There can be multiple mutable references to the same object because the TlsWyRand Deref implementation dereferences a raw pointer.

References

github.com/Absolucy/nanorand-rs
github.com/Absolucy/nanorand-rs/issues/28
github.com/advisories/GHSA-r57r-j98g-587f
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45705
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nanorand/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.md
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.html

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