vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36323: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-rust
Title
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