CVE-2020-25575

NameCVE-2020-25575
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs969839

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rust-failure (PTS)buster0.1.5-1vulnerable
bullseye, bookworm0.1.7-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
rust-failuresource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant969839

Notes

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
This CVE ID is merely for the fact that the crate is unmaintained
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