libc has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.2.186). DepScope rates its health at 86/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of libc?

The latest version of libc is 0.2.186, released 2026-04-23.

Does libc have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of libc.

No, libc is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.2.186 (2026-04-23).

What are alternatives to libc?

Popular alternatives to libc in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

What license does libc use?

libc is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

libc

cargov0.2.186

Raw FFI bindings to platform libraries like libc.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive202 versions0 deps248,967,363 weekly dl

rust-lang/libc

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 86/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.6/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

42

Contributors (12m)

43

Primary author dominance

21%

GitHub stars

2,528

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+3%)

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