Rust advisories / quickersort
UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2018-0016 · quickersort
RUSTSEC-2018-0016: quickersort is deprecated and unmaintained
Short answerNot a bug report: quickersort is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. Plan to move to a maintained alternative.
| Crate | quickersort |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Before 3.0.2. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2018-06-30 |
| Last changed | 2020-10-02 |
| Also known as | none |
What to do
- Look for a maintained fork or alternative crate.
- If you cannot move yet, acknowledge it in your audit config so CI stays green while you plan: add
"RUSTSEC-2018-0016"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i quickersort.
Details from the advisory
The author of the quickersort crate has deprecated it and does not recommend using it anymore.
Everything in it has been incorporated into std::sort_unstable in the standard library as of Rust 1.20.
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/quickersort
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0016.html
- Web: github.com/notriddle/quickersort/commit/0bc164366315801f0c6b31f4081b7df9fc894076
From the RustSec Advisory Database (CC0-1.0) via the OSV export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026. Severity score computed from the published CVSS vector.
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