CVE-2021-29939: Out of bounds write in stackvector
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StackVec::extend used the lower and upper bounds from an Iterator’s size_hint to determine how many items to push into the stack based vector. If the size_hint implementation returned a lower bound that was larger than the upper bound, StackVec would write out of bounds and overwrite memory on the stack. As mentioned by the size_hint documentation, size_hint is mainly for optimization and incorrect implementations should not lead to memory safety issues.
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