CVE-2020-36442: Data races in beef
An issue was discovered in the beef crate before 0.5.0 for Rust.
Affected versions of this crate did not have a T: Sync bound in the Send impl for Cow<'_, T, U>. This allows users to create data races by making Cow contain types that are (Send && !Sync) like Cell<_> or RefCell<_>.
Such data races can lead to memory corruption.
The flaw was corrected in commit d1c7658 by adding trait bounds T: Sync and T::Owned: Send to the Send impl for Cow<'_, T, U>.
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