GHSA-P5W9-856P-8Q4G Assumed memory layout of std::net::SocketAddr

The socket2 crate has assumed std::net::SocketAddrV4 and std::net::SocketAddrV6 have the same memory layout as the system C representation sockaddr. It has simply casted the pointers to convert the socket addresses to the system representation. The standard library does not say anything about the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35921

An issue was discovered in the miow crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. It has false expectations about the std::net::SocketAddr memory representation...

Rust security vulnerabilities

Rust is a general-purpose, compiled programming language from the Mozilla Foundation. A security vulnerability exists in miow crate for Rust prior to version 0.3.6, which stems from an incorrect expectation of the std::net::SocketAddr memory representation. No details of the vulnerability are...