Unexpected panic in multihash

In versions prior 0.11.3 it's possible to make fromslice panic by feeding it certain malformed input. It's never documented that fromslice and frombytes which wraps it can panic, and its' return type Result suggests otherwise. In practice, fromslice/frombytes is frequently used in networking code...

CVE-2020-35909

An issue was discovered in the multihash crate before 0.11.3 for Rust. The fromslice parsing code can panic via unsanitized data from a network server...

CVE-2020-35909: Undefined Security Weakness

An issue was discovered in the multihash crate before 0.11.3 for Rust. The fromslice parsing code can panic via unsanitized data from a network server...

RUSTSEC-2020-0068 Unexpected panic in multihash `from_slice` parsing code

In versions prior 0.11.3 it's possible to make fromslice panic by feeding it certain malformed input. It's never documented that fromslice and frombytes which wraps it can panic, and its' return type Result suggests otherwise. In practice, fromslice/frombytes is frequently used in networking code...