# CVE-2021-45708: An issue was discovered in the abomonation crate through 2021-10-17 for Rust.

- Also known as: GHSA-HFXP-P695-629X, GHSA-5VWC-R48G-WJ6C, RUSTSEC-2021-0120
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-26 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- abomonation (crates.io): through 0.7.3
- abomonation (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0

## Description

An issue was discovered in the abomonation crate through 2021-10-17 for Rust. Because transmute operations are insufficiently constrained, there can be an information leak or ASLR bypass.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, abomonation, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0120.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/abomonation/RUSTSEC-2021-0120.md

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