UBUNTU-CVE-2021-26958
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-26958
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-26958.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-26958
- Upstream
- Published
- 2021-02-09T23:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-14T06:34:33.613722Z
- Severity
-
- 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.
- References
Affected packages
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / rust-xcb
Package
- Name
- rust-xcb
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-xcb@0.9.0-2?arch=source&distro=jammy
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / rust-xcb
Package
- Name
- rust-xcb
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-xcb@1.2.2-1?arch=source&distro=noble