rand v0.8.7: backport #1790 (#1804)

Author: dhardy

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ A [separate changelog is kept for rand_core](rand_core/CHANGELOG.md).
 
 You may also find the [Upgrade Guide](https://rust-random.github.io/book/update.html) useful.
 
+## [0.8.7] - 2026-07-02
+### Fixes
+- Fix possible memory safety violation due to deserialization of `UniformChar` from bad source ([#1804])
+
+[#1804]: https://github.com/rust-random/rand/pull/1804
+
 ## [0.8.6] - 2026-04-14
 This release back-ports a fix from v0.10. See also [#1763].
 

Cargo.lock.msrv

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rand"
-version = "0.8.6"
+version = "0.8.7"
 authors = ["The Rand Project Developers", "The Rust Project Developers"]
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -76,3 +76,4 @@ libc = { version = "0.2.22", optional = true, default-features = false }
 rand_pcg = { path = "rand_pcg", version = "0.3.0" }
 # Only to test serde1
 bincode = "1.2.1"
+serde_json = "1.0.99"

Cargo.toml

@@ -426,6 +426,15 @@ pub struct UniformInt<X> {
 
 macro_rules! uniform_int_impl {
     ($ty:ty, $unsigned:ident, $u_large:ident) => {
+        impl UniformInt<$ty> {
+            /// Get the maximum possible value
+            #[allow(unused)]
+            #[inline]
+            pub(crate) fn max(&self) -> $ty {
+                self.range.wrapping_sub(1).wrapping_add(self.low)
+            }
+        }
+
         impl SampleUniform for $ty {
             type Sampler = UniformInt<$ty>;
         }
@@ -583,9 +592,24 @@ impl SampleUniform for char {
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "serde1", derive(Serialize, Deserialize))]
 pub struct UniformChar {
+    #[cfg_attr(feature = "serde1", serde(deserialize_with = "deser_sampler"))]
     sampler: UniformInt<u32>,
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde1")]
+fn deser_sampler<'de, D>(d: D) -> Result<UniformInt<u32>, D::Error>
+where
+D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
+{
+    let sampler = <UniformInt<u32> as serde::Deserialize>::deserialize(d)?;
+    if sampler.max() > std::char::MAX as u32 - CHAR_SURROGATE_LEN {
+        return Err(serde::de::Error::custom(
+            "bad sampler range for UniformChar",
+        ));
+    }
+    Ok(sampler)
+}
+
 /// UTF-16 surrogate range start
 const CHAR_SURROGATE_START: u32 = 0xD800;
 /// UTF-16 surrogate range size
@@ -1154,6 +1178,24 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde1")]
+    fn test_char_bad_deser() {
+        let json = r#"{"sampler":{"low":4294967200,"range":0,"z":0}}"#;
+        let result = serde_json::from_str::<Uniform<char>>(json);
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+        let err = result.unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(err.classify(), serde_json::error::Category::Data);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
+        {
+            assert_eq!(
+                alloc::string::ToString::to_string(&err),
+                       "bad sampler range for UniformChar at line 1 column 46"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)] // Miri is too slow
     fn test_floats() {
@@ -1381,6 +1423,7 @@ mod tests {
         let r = Uniform::from(2u32..7);
         assert_eq!(r.0.low, 2);
         assert_eq!(r.0.range, 5);
+        assert_eq!(r.0.max(), 6);
         let r = Uniform::from(2.0f64..7.0);
         assert_eq!(r.0.low, 2.0);
         assert_eq!(r.0.scale, 5.0);
@@ -1391,6 +1434,7 @@ mod tests {
         let r = Uniform::from(2u32..=6);
         assert_eq!(r.0.low, 2);
         assert_eq!(r.0.range, 5);
+        assert_eq!(r.0.max(), 6);
         let r = Uniform::from(2.0f64..=7.0);
         assert_eq!(r.0.low, 2.0);
         assert!(r.0.scale > 5.0);

src/distributions/uniform.rs

@@ -1310,6 +1310,7 @@ mod test {
 
     #[test]
     #[cfg(feature = "std")]
+    #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)] // Miri is too slow
     fn test_multiple_weighted_distributions() {
         use super::*;