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Use After Free

CVE-2020-35906

High
7.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. futures_task::waker may cause a use-after-free in a non-static type situation.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published