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Data races in hashconsing

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 22, 2023

Package

cargo hashconsing (Rust)

Affected versions

< 1.1.0

Patched versions

1.1.0

Description

Affected versions of hashconsing implements Send/Sync for its HConsed type without restricting it to Sendable types and Syncable types. This allows non-Sync types such as Cell to be shared across threads leading to undefined behavior and memory corruption in concurrent programs.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 26, 2021
Reviewed Aug 19, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021
Last updated Jun 22, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-36215

GHSA ID

GHSA-rw2c-c256-3r53

Source code

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