Advisories » MGASA-2022-0044

Updated rust packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Feb 2022
Modification date: 02 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-21658

Description

This update provides Rust 1.57.0 as a feature and bugfix update. See the
release notes for details.

The 'std::fs::remove_dir_all' standard library function was vulnerable a race
condition enabling symlink following (CWE-363). An attacker could use this
security issue to trick a privileged program into deleting files and
directories the attacker couldn't otherwise access or delete (CVE-2022-21658).
This vulnerability was fixed by patching Rust 1.57.0.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29912
• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/12/02/Rust-1.57.0.html
• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/20/cve-2022-21658.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21658

SRPMS

8/core

• rust-1.57.0-1.1.mga8