Bug 2177737 - RUSTSEC-2023-0020: const-cstr is unmaintained
Summary: RUSTSEC-2023-0020: const-cstr is unmaintained
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rust-const-cstr
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Reported: 2023-03-13 14:30 UTC by Fabio Valentini
Modified: 2023-08-16 07:11 UTC (History)
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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.
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