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RUSTSEC-2023-0055: Multiple soundness issues #814

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github-actions bot opened this issue May 23, 2024 · 0 comments
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RUSTSEC-2023-0055: Multiple soundness issues #814

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Multiple soundness issues

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Status unsound
Package lexical
Version 6.1.1
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Date 2023-09-03

lexical contains multiple soundness issues:

  1. Bytes::read() allows creating instances of types with invalid bit patterns
  2. BytesIter::read() advances iterators out of bounds
  3. The BytesIter trait has safety invariants but is public and not marked unsafe
  4. write_float() calls MaybeUninit::assume_init() on uninitialized data, which is is not allowed by the Rust abstract machine

The crate also has some correctness issues and appears to be unmaintained.

Alternatives

For quickly parsing floating-point numbers third-party crates are no longer needed. A fast float parsing algorith by the author of lexical has been merged into libcore.

For quickly parsing integers, consider atoi and btoi crates (100% safe code). atoi_radix10 provides even faster parsing, but only with -C target-cpu=native, and at the cost of some unsafe.

For formatting integers in a #[no_std] context consider the numtoa crate.

For working with big numbers consider num-bigint and num-traits.

See advisory page for additional details.

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