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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021:1935-01 Low: Rust Toolset Update

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A revision for the rust-toolset in RHEL 8 has been released, tackling minor security vulnerabilities and implementing various improvements.
An update for the rust-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rust (1.49.0). (BZ#1896712)
Security Fix(es):
* rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous (CVE-2020-36318)
* rust: memory safety violation in String::retain() (CVE-2020-36317)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux memory safety rust toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36317 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36318 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: rust-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.src.rpm rust-toolset-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.src.rpm
aarch64: cargo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm cargo-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm clippy-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm clippy-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rls-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rls-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-analysis-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-debugsource-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-doc-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-std-static-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rustfmt-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm rustfmt-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.aarch64.rpm
noarch: cargo-doc-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.noarch.rpm rust-debugger-common-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1935-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1935
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for the rust-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux memory safety rust toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1949189 - CVE-2020-36317 rust: memory safety violation in String::retain()

1949192 - CVE-2020-36318 rust: use-after-free or double free in VecDeque::make_contiguous

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