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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2021-2243-01 Low: Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent low-severity update for rust-toolset-1.49 on Red Hat enhances memory safety protocols, addressing vulnerabilities from improper memory handling
New rust-toolset-1.49 packages are now available as a part of Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, the cargo-vendor plugin, and required libraries.
This enhancement update adds the rust-toolset-1.49 packages to Red Hat Developer Tools. (BZ#1902240)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity 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

Package List

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rust-toolset-1.49-1.49.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-1.49.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: rust-toolset-1.49-cargo-doc-1.49.0-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-debugger-common-1.49.0-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-gdb-1.49.0-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-lldb-1.49.0-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-src-1.49.0-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm
ppc64: rust-toolset-1.49-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-build-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-cargo-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-clippy-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rls-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-runtime-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-analysis-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-debuginfo-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-doc-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rust-std-static-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-rustfmt-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: rust-toolset-1.49-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-build-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-cargo-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm rust-toolset-1.49-clippy-1.49.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2243-01
Product: Red Hat Developer Tools
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2243
Issue date: 2021-06-03

Topic

New rust-toolset-1.49 packages are now available as a part of Red HatDeveloper Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.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 security update software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity memory safety rust-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, 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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