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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTNjajMtanJycC05cnhm

Unchecked Return Value in xcb

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3cj3-jrrp-9rxf
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: 11 months ago

CVSS Score: 8.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-3cj3-jrrp-9rxf, CVE-2021-26958
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26958
• https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/653
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0019.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3cj3-jrrp-9rxf

Blast Radius: 29.2

Affected Packages