[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#969911: rust-rand-core: Unaligned memory access resulting in undefined behavior

Alexander Kjäll alexander.kjall at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 17:45:45 BST 2020


Source: rust-rand-core
Version: 0.3.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream, security

Dear Maintainer,

Versions under 0.4.2 violated alignment when casting byte slices to integer slices, resulting in undefined behavior.

Advisory: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0035.html


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