Affected versions of this crate violated alignment when casting byte slices to integer slices, resulting in undefined behavior. rand_core::BlockRng::next_u64 and rand_core::BlockRng::fill_bytes are affected.
The flaw was corrected by Ralf Jung and Diggory Hardy for rand_core >= 0.4.2.
None.
See Rand's changelog.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, open an issue in the Rand repository.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-704"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-08-18T20:45:24Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "CRITICAL"
}