RUSTSEC-2021-0153: `encoding` is unmaintained

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#59 opened on Mar 14, 2023 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: rust
Domain: security

Research direction

Start by checking the project's dependency manifests and dependency tree to find where encoding 0.2.33 is introduced. Review the linked RustSec advisory and assess whether encoding_rs can replace it; done means the unmaintained package is no longer pulled in and the project still builds and passes its tests.

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Description

encoding is unmaintained

Details
Status	unmaintained
Package	`encoding`
Version	`0.2.33`
URL	https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-encoding/issues/127
Date	2021-12-05

Last release was on 2016-08-28. The issue inquiring as to the status of the crate has gone unanswered by the maintainer.

Possible alternatives

encoding_rs

See advisory page for additional details.

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