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Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) (blog.rust-lang.org)
submitted 7 months ago by snaggen to c/rust
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[–] BB_C 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Were there actually any real-world use-cases affected by this? Do any of them not deserve to be named and shamed irregardless of this vulnerability?

If it was up to me, I would nuke the cmd custom implementation, leave some helpful compile error messages behind, and direct users to some 3rd party crates to choose from.

[–] Moussx 6 points 7 months ago

Doing such a regression on a Tier 1 target would be a really big blow to the language's reputation imo

[–] BatmanAoD 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What custom implementation? The escaping logic?

Edit: to be clear, there is no "custom implementation" of cmd itself, nor is the problem exclusive to Rust. This is a problem with the Windows cmd itself.