Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-31162
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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