GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h
Insufficient covariance check makes self_cell unsound
Details
All public versions prior to `1.02` used an insufficient check to ensure that users correctly marked the dependent type as either `covariant` or `not_covariant`. This allowed users to mark a dependent as covariant even though its type was not covariant but invariant, for certain invariant types involving trait object lifetimes. One example for such a dependent type is `type Dependent<'a> = RefCell<Box<dyn fmt::Display + 'a>>`. Such a type allowed unsound usage in purely safe user code that leads to undefined behavior. The patched versions now produce a compile time error if such a type is marked as `covariant`.
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Affected packages
0Fixed in: 0.10.3Upgrade self_cell to 0.10.3 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
1.0.0Fixed in: 1.0.2Upgrade self_cell to 1.0.2 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).