RUSTSEC-2024-0379: Multiple soundness issues

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Multiple soundness issues

Details
Status	unsound
Package	fast-float
Version	0.2.0
URL	aldanor/fast-float-rust#35
Date	2024-10-31

fast-float contains multiple soundness issues:

1. Undefined behavior when checking input length, which has been merged but no package pubished.
2. Many functions marked as safe with non-local safety guarantees

The library is also unmaintained.

Alternatives

For quickly parsing floating-point numbers third-party crates are generally no longer needed. A fast float parsing algorithm by the author of lexical has been merged into libcore. When requiring direct parsing from bytes and/or partial parsers, the fast-float2 fork of fast-float containing these security patches and reduces overall usage of unsafe.

See advisory page for additional details.

[nwagner84]

polars already switched to fast-float2.