Description
Several methods in `circular-buffer` drop elements before updating the buffer's start/end metadata. If an element's `Drop` panics during the drop, the metadata update is skipped, so the buffer still treats the already-dropped elements as live. When the buffer is later dropped (or used after the panic is caught), those elements are visited again — a use-after-free / double-free reachable from safe Rust.
## Impact
- **CWE-415 (Double Free):** the same allocation is freed twice.
- **CWE-416 (Use-After-Free):** a freed allocation is accessed during a repeated `Drop`.
Reachable entirely from safe Rust via `catch_unwind` with element types whose `Drop` can panic.
## Fix
Fixed in `circular-buffer` 2.0.1 by adjusting the buffer's start/end metadata before the elements are dropped.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | circular-buffer | >= 0.0.0-0, < 2.0.1 | 2.0.1 | RUSTSEC-2026-0256 |