CVE-2020-35907

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.

This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn't accessible from the main thread.

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.

This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn't accessible from the main thread.

Affected versions of the crate used a UnsafeCell in thread-local storage to return a noop waker reference, assuming that the reference would never be returned from another thread.

This resulted in a segmentation fault crash if Waker::wake_by_ref() was called on a waker returned from another thread due to it attempting to dereference a pointer that wasn't accessible from the main thread.

Reproduction Example (from issue):

use futures_task::noop_waker_ref;
fn main() {
    let waker = std::thread::spawn(|| noop_waker_ref()).join().unwrap();
    waker.wake_by_ref();
}

The flaw was corrected by using a OnceCell::Lazy<> wrapper around the noop waker instead of thread-local storage.

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.