CVE-2020-36453: Data races in scottqueue

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the scottqueue crate through 2020-11-15 for Rust. There are unconditional implementations of Send and Sync for Queue. This allows (1) creating data races to a T: !Sync and (2) sending T: !Send to other threads, resulting in memory corruption or other undefined behavior.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-gvvv-w559-2hg6
github.com/rossdylan/rust-scottqueue
github.com/rossdylan/rust-scottqueue/issues/1
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36453
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0133.html

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