cve-2024-7884
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-05 13:01
Modified
2024-09-05 14:42
Severity
Summary
Memory leak when calling a canister method via `ic_cdk::call`
Impacted products
VendorProduct
Internet Computeric-cdk
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