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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-31162

In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, a double free can occur in the Vec::from_iter function if freeing the element panics.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:48 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-31162

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Apr 2021, 07:15 UTC

In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, a double free can occur in the Vec::from_iter function if freeing the element panics.

osv:CVE-2021-31162
Complete source record
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