Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in the smallvec crate before 0.6.3 for Rust. The Iterator implementation mishandles destructors, leading to a double free.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20991
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the smallvec crate before 0.6.3 for Rust. The Iterator implementation mishandles destructors, leading to a double free.
osv:CVE-2018-20991
Complete source record
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