Race condition vulnerability in Rust's MutexGuard object allows for memory safety issues

Race condition vulnerability in Rust's MutexGuard object allows for memory safety issues

CVE-2017-20004 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.

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