RUSTSEC-2026-0292
UNKNOWNChunk::{clear, dropleft, dropright} and InlineArray::{clear, truncate} drop the removed elements before updating the metadata that records which slots hold live values — the left/right index pair for Chunk, the length field for InlineArray. If an element's Drop panics during the drop, that update is never reached, so the collection still treats the already-dropped elements as live. When the collection is later dropped (its destructor walks the range described by the stale metadata), or a subsequent operation touches the same slots, those elements are dropped a second time — a double free (CWE-415) / use-after-free (CWE-416) reachable from safe Rust.
The stale field is left and right for Chunk::clear, left for dropleft, right for dropright, and the length field for both InlineArray methods.
// mitigationUpgrade to imbl-sized-chunks 0.2.0 or later, which commits the metadata before dropping any element (fixed in jneem/imbl-sized-chunks#14, released in 0.2.0).
- Affected
- >=0.0.0-0, <0.2.0
- Fixed in
- not stated
- Published
- 2026-09-04, updated 2026-09-21
- Sources
- osv