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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-34249

High
9.8/10

Summary

wasm3 was discovered to contain a Heap-based Buffer Overflow which leads to segmentation fault via the function `DeallocateSlot` in `wasm3/source/m3_compile.c`.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published