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Multiple memory safety issues in actix-web

Affected Packages	Affected Versions	Fixed Versions
cargo:actix-web	< 0.7.15	0.7.15
1,049 Dependent packages 6,843 Dependent repositories 36,111,767 Downloads total Affected Version Ranges All affected versions 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4, 0.4.5, 0.4.6, 0.4.7, 0.4.8, 0.4.9, 0.4.10, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.5.8, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8, 0.6.9, 0.6.10, 0.6.11, 0.6.12, 0.6.13, 0.6.14, 0.6.15, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.5, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.7.9, 0.7.10, 0.7.11, 0.7.12, 0.7.13, 0.7.14 All unaffected versions 0.7.15, 0.7.16, 0.7.17, 0.7.18, 0.7.19, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 2.0.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.5.0, 4.5.1, 4.6.0, 4.7.0, 4.8.0, 4.9.0, 4.10.0, 4.10.1, 4.10.2, 4.11.0

Affected versions contain multiple memory safety issues, such as:

Unsoundly coercing immutable references to mutable references
Unsoundly extending lifetimes of strings
Adding the Send marker trait to objects that cannot be safely sent between threads

This may result in a variety of memory corruption scenarios, most likely use-after-free.

A signficant refactoring effort has been conducted to resolve these issues.

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