Upstream information

CVE-2020-36317 at MITRE

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.49.0, String::retain() function has a panic safety problem. It allows creation of a non-UTF-8 Rust string when the provided closure panics. This bug could result in a memory safety violation when other string APIs assume that UTF-8 encoding is used on the same string.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Analysis

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.5 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1184589 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s) Source package State
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 rust Affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 LTSS rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 LTSS rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ESPOS 15 rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 rust Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 rust Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 rust Affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 rust Affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 rust Affected