wasm3 0.5.0 main.c main memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in wasm3 0.5.0. Affected by this issue is the function main of the file wasm3/platforms/app/main.c. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-34246. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in wasm3 0.5.0. Affected by this issue is the function main of the file wasm3/platforms/app/main.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

wasm3 v0.5.0 was discovered to contain an out-of-bound memory read which leads to segmentation fault via the function "main" in wasm3/platforms/app/main.c.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-34246 since 05/02/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/17/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• wasm3

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• 0.5.0

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• Product: https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/

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