RHSA-2021:1935 — Security Advisory

An update for the rust-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.