CVE-2021-45680: Out-of-bounds Write in vec-const

January 6, 2022 (updated January 7, 2022)

An issue was discovered in the vec-const crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. It tries to construct a Vec from a pointer to a const slice, leading to memory corruption.

References

github.com/Eolu/vec-const
github.com/Eolu/vec-const/issues/1
github.com/advisories/GHSA-x76r-966h-5qv9
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45680
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/vec-const/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.md
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.html

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