Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binaryen package, versions <64-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINARYEN-336900
  • published10 Feb 2019
  • disclosed10 Feb 2019

Introduced: 10 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-7704  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binaryen to version 64-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binaryen package and not the binaryen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

wasm::WasmBinaryBuilder::readUserSection in wasm-binary.cpp in Binaryen 1.38.22 triggers an attempt at excessive memory allocation, as demonstrated by wasm-merge and wasm-opt.

CVSS Scores

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