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RUSTSEC-2020-0023:
Rust vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A security vulnerability (RUSTSEC-2020-0023/CVE-2020-35879) was discovered in the rulinalg crate through February 11, 2020, for Rust. The issue involves incorrect lifetime-boundary definitions for RowMut::raw_slice and RowMut::raw_slice_mut methods (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from incorrect lifetime parameter definitions in the rulinalg crate. The raw_slice and raw_slice_mut methods create 'a bounded references from &self, whereas they should be bounded by 'self lifetime instead. This implementation flaw received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) with the vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows for the creation of multiple mutable aliases to the same memory location, which can lead to data races in safe Rust code. This violates Rust's fundamental memory safety guarantees (GitHub Issue).
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