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High ALSA-2023:4635 1 CVE

Important: rust-toolset:rhel8 security update

Published Aug 14, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

Security Fix(es):

* rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 cargo 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 clippy 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-analysis 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-analyzer 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-debugger-common 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-doc 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-gdb 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-lldb 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-src 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-std-static 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-std-static-wasm32-wasi 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rust-toolset 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc
AlmaLinux · 8 rustfmt 1.66.1-2.module_el8.8.0+3604+b9bee1fc

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2023-38497 Public exploit

    Cargo not respecting umask when extracting crate archives

    Cargo downloads the Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2, bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate c…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38497
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2228038
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-4635.html