High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in the string-interner crate before 0.7.1 for Rust. It allows attackers to read from memory locations associated with dangling pointers, because of a cloning flaw.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16882
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 05:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the string-interner crate before 0.7.1 for Rust. It allows attackers to read from memory locations associated with dangling pointers, because of a cloning flaw.
osv:CVE-2019-16882
Complete source record
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