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CVE-2018-1000810

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The Rust Programming Language Standard Library version 1.29.0, 1.28.0, 1.27.2, 1.27.1, 127.0, 126.2, 126.1, 126.0 contains a CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow vulnerability in standard library that can result in buffer overflow. This attack appear to be exploitable via str::repeat, passed a large number, can overflow an internal buffer. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.29.1.

Affected products

• rust-lang rust: 1.26.0, 1.26.1, 1.26.2, 1.27.0, 1.27.1, 1.27.2 (+2)

References

• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/21/Security-advisory-for-std.html
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rustlang-security-announcements/CmSuTm-SaU0
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-11
• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/21/Security-advisory-for-std.html
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rustlang-security-announcements/CmSuTm-SaU0
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-11

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