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Improper Synchronization

CVE-2020-36207

High
7/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the aovec crate through 2020-12-10 for Rust. Because Aovec<T> does not have bounds on its Send trait or Sync trait, a data race and memory corruption can occur.

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

CWE-662 - Improper Synchronization

The software utilizes multiple threads or processes to allow temporary access to a shared resource that can only be exclusive to one process at a time, but it does not properly synchronize these actions, which might cause simultaneous accesses of this resource by multiple threads or processes.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published