UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-21000
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000
Upstream
Published
2019-08-26T15:15:00Z
Modified
2026-01-20T17:03:00.759243Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the safe-transmute crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. A constructor's arguments are in the wrong order, causing heap memory corruption.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / rust-safe-transmute

Package

Name
rust-safe-transmute
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-safe-transmute@0.10.1-2?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.10.1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.10.1-2",
            "binary_name": "librust-safe-transmute-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000.json"

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / rust-safe-transmute

Package

Name
rust-safe-transmute
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-safe-transmute@0.10.1-2?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.10.1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.10.1-2",
            "binary_name": "librust-safe-transmute-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / rust-safe-transmute

Package

Name
rust-safe-transmute
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-safe-transmute@0.11.2-1?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.11.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.11.2-1",
            "binary_name": "librust-safe-transmute-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / rust-safe-transmute

Package

Name
rust-safe-transmute
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-safe-transmute@0.11.3-1?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.11.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.11.3-1",
            "binary_name": "librust-safe-transmute-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-21000.json"