Bug 2177737

Summary:	RUSTSEC-2023-0020: const-cstr is unmaintained
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Valentini <decathorpe>
Component:	rust-const-cstr	Assignee:	Rust SIG <rust-sig>
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Description Fabio Valentini 2023-03-13 14:30:44 UTC

c.f. https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0020.html

The last release of the "const-cstr" crate was on 2018-02-10. This is also the last day on which code changes happened in the project's git repo on GitHub. The project is now a read-only archive.

The code has some issues that violate Rust soundness rules and can lead to panics when parsing untrusted data.

The const_str and cstr crates are listed as possible alternatives.

The following Rust packages in Fedora depend on the "const-cstr" crate:

- libblkio
- yeslogic-fontconfig-sys

I plan to mark the "rust-const-cstr-devel" package with "Provides: deprecated()" to ensure no new packages in Fedora depending on it, and will file additional bugs for all dependent packages.

Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 07:11:35 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.