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rust-memoffset — security advisory
An issue was discovered in the memoffset crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. offset_of and span_of can cause exposure of uninitialized memory.
- Products
- rust-memoffset
- Affected versions
- 0.2.1-1, 0.5.3-1, 0.6.4-1, 0.6.5-1, 0.8.0-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-15553
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the memoffset crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. offset_of and span_of can cause exposure of uninitialized memory.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15553
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Complete source record
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