Bug 1950390 (CVE-2017-20004)

Summary:	CVE-2017-20004 rust: synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amulhern, bodavis, igor.raits, jcajka, jistone, jpadman, mnewsome, rust-sig, TicoTimo, tstellar
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-16 14:02:03 UTC

In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.

Reference:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41622

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/41624

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-07 21:03:55 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-20004