An issue was discovered in the actix-service crate before 1.0.6 for Rust. The Cell implementation allows obtaining more than one mutable reference to the same data.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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| https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0046.html | third party advisory exploit |