It is possible to crash (panic) an application by providing a corrupted data to be read. This issue affects Rust applications using Apache Avro Rust SDK prior to 0.14.0 (previously known as avro-rs). Users should update to apache-avro version 0.14.0 which addresses this issue.
Credits
This issue was reported to the Apache Avro team by Evan Richter at ForAllSecure and found with Mayhem.