FKIE_CVE-2018-16764

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-09-10 04:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:44
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In WAVM through 2018-07-26, a crafted file sent to the WebAssembly Virtual Machine may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of an IR::FunctionValidationContext::catch_all heap-based buffer over-read.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/AndrewScheidecker/WAVM/issues/93Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AndrewScheidecker/WAVM/issues/93Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
webassembly_virtual_machine_project webassembly_virtual_machine *
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