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RUSTSEC-2026-0142

Double-free in `vmem` storage reachable from safe Rust (predecessor of `oneringbuf`)

Details

`mutringbuf` is the archived predecessor of [`oneringbuf`](https://crates.io/crates/oneringbuf) — the crate was renamed and the GitHub repository was archived on 2025-11-20. All released versions up to `1.0.0` carry the same `vmem`-feature double-free bug that affects `oneringbuf`, with the same code paths and the same reproduction shape.

When the `vmem` feature is enabled, `VmemStorage<T>::new(Box<[UnsafeSyncCell<T>]>)` (and every public constructor that funnels through it) bit-copies the input buffer into a freshly `mmap`'d region with `ptr::copy_nonoverlapping`, then lets the source `Box<[UnsafeSyncCell<T>]>` drop normally. Because `UnsafeSyncCell<T>` has a `Drop` impl that runs `assume_init_drop` on its inner `MaybeUninit<T>`, the source-side `T` values are dropped at the end of `new`, while bitwise duplicates remain inside the mmap region. The ring-buffer destructor then runs `UnsafeSyncCell::drop` a second time on every cell — a deterministic double-free of every heap-owning element. Reachable from 100% safe Rust.

## Trigger

```rust let v: Vec<Vec<u32>> = (0..1024).map(|i| vec![i, i+1, i+2]).collect(); let rb: mutringbuf::SharedVmemRB<Vec<u32>> = mutringbuf::SharedVmemRB::from(v); drop(rb); // glibc: free(): double free detected in tcache 2 -> abort ```

## Fix

`mutringbuf` is no longer maintained. The author renamed the crate to [`oneringbuf`](https://crates.io/crates/oneringbuf) and shipped the fix as `oneringbuf 0.7.1` (upstream PR [skilvingr/rust-oneringbuf#3](https://github.com/skilvingr/rust-oneringbuf/pull/3)). All `mutringbuf` versions have been yanked from crates.io. Users should migrate to `oneringbuf >= 0.7.1`.

See the parallel advisory for the `oneringbuf` crate for the full technical write-up of the bug.

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Affected packages

crates.io/mutringbuf
Introduced in: 0.0.0-0

No fixed version published yet for mutringbuf. Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.

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