Incorrect Hashes in sha2 Crate with AVX2-Accelerated Backend

Incorrect Hashes in sha2 Crate with AVX2-Accelerated Backend

CVE-2021-45696 · CRITICAL Severity

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

An issue was discovered in the sha2 crate 0.9.7 before 0.9.8 for Rust. Hashes of long messages may be incorrect when the AVX2-accelerated backend is used.

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