Rust 1.58.1 fixes dangerous race condition

This position launch arriving January 20, 2022, just times right after Rust 1.58, fixes a race affliction in the std::fs::eliminate_dir_all typical library function. This vulnerability is tracked at CVE-2022-21658 and there was an advisory posted. An attacker could use this stability challenge to trick a privileged application into deleting documents and directories that the attacker or else could not entry or delete. Rust versions 1. via 1.58 are affected by this vulnerability. Buyers are recommended to update their toolchains and establish systems with the up-to-date compiler.

Rust 1.58.1 also addresses quite a few regressions in diagnostics and applications released in Rust 1.58:

  • The non_send out_fields_in_send_ty Clippy lint was observed to have much too a lot of false positives and has been moved to the experimental lints group referred to as “nursery”.
  • The ineffective_structure Clippy lint was up to date to tackle captured identifiers in format strings, introduced in Rust 1.58.
  • A regression in Rustfmt blocking created data files from remaining formatted when passed by way of the normal input has been set.
  • An incorrect error concept displayed by rustc in some scenarios has been preset.

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