Security advisory for rustc (CVE-2021-42574)

· The Rust Programming Language · Nov. 1, 2021, 12:10 a.m.
Summary
This is a cross-post of the official security advisory. The official advisory contains a signed version with our PGP key, as well. The Rust Security Response WG was notified of a security concern affecting source code containing "bidirectional override" Unicode codepoints: in some cases the use of those codepoints could lead to the reviewed code being different than the compiled code. This is a vulnerability in the Unicode specification, and its assigned identifier is CVE-2021-42574. While the...
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