PT-2024-40268

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Rust affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows populating a DistributedSlice of a type T with elements of an arbitrary other type that coerces to T. This means elements of one type could end up in a slice of another type i...

RUSTSEC-2024-0407 Fails to ensure slice elements match the slice's declared type

Affected versions allow populating a DistributedSlice of T with elements of an arbitrary other type that coerces to T. For example, elements of type &&str could end up in a slice of type &str, since &&str coerces to &str via a deref coercion. The flaw was corrected by implementing typechecking fo...