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Calendar Grey November 10, 2021
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Fedora 33 updates Rust 1.56.1 addressing the trojan source attack. Discover the effects and solutions.
Rust 1.56.1 adds a mitigation for CVE-2021-42574, the "trojan source" attack that obfuscates code with BiDi control characters

Summary

Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents

segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

This package includes the Rust compiler and documentation generator.

Rust 1.56.1 adds a mitigation for CVE-2021-42574, the "trojan source" attack

that obfuscates code with BiDi control characters. The compiler will now error

on such characters in code comments and string/char literals. For more details,

see the upstream [security advisory](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/cve-2021-42574.html).

* Mon Nov 1 2021 Josh Stone - 1.56.1-1

- Update to 1.56.1.

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-443139f67c' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.56.1
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: The Rust Programming Language

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