pysec-2021-320
Vulnerability from pysec
Wasmtime is an open source runtime for WebAssembly & WASI. In Wasmtime from version 0.19.0 and before version 0.30.0 there was a use-after-free bug when passing externref
s from the host to guest Wasm content. To trigger the bug, you have to explicitly pass multiple externref
s from the host to a Wasm instance at the same time, either by passing multiple externref
s as arguments from host code to a Wasm function, or returning multiple externref
s to Wasm from a multi-value return function defined in the host. If you do not have host code that matches one of these shapes, then you are not impacted. If Wasmtime's VMExternRefActivationsTable
became filled to capacity after passing the first externref
in, then passing in the second externref
could trigger a garbage collection. However the first externref
is not rooted until we pass control to Wasm, and therefore could be reclaimed by the collector if nothing else was holding a reference to it or otherwise keeping it alive. Then, when control was passed to Wasm after the garbage collection, Wasm could use the first externref
, which at this point has already been freed. We have reason to believe that the effective impact of this bug is relatively small because usage of externref
is currently quite rare. The bug has been fixed, and users should upgrade to Wasmtime 0.30.0. If you cannot upgrade Wasmtime yet, you can avoid the bug by disabling reference types support in Wasmtime by passing false
to wasmtime::Config::wasm_reference_types
.
{ "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "PyPI", "name": "wasmtime", "purl": "pkg:pypi/wasmtime" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "101998733b74624cbd348a2366d05760b40181f3" } ], "repo": "https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime", "type": "GIT" }, { "events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "0.30.0" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ], "versions": [ "0.0.1", "0.0.2", "0.11.0", "0.12.0", "0.15.0", "0.15.1", "0.16.0", "0.16.1", "0.17.0", "0.18.0", "0.18.1", "0.18.2", "0.19.0", "0.20.0", "0.21.0", "0.22.0", "0.23.0", "0.24.0", "0.25.0", "0.26.0", "0.27.0", "0.28.0", "0.28.1", "0.29.0", "0.9.0" ] } ], "aliases": [ "CVE-2021-39216", "GHSA-v4cp-h94r-m7xf" ], "details": "Wasmtime is an open source runtime for WebAssembly \u0026 WASI. In Wasmtime from version 0.19.0 and before version 0.30.0 there was a use-after-free bug when passing `externref`s from the host to guest Wasm content. To trigger the bug, you have to explicitly pass multiple `externref`s from the host to a Wasm instance at the same time, either by passing multiple `externref`s as arguments from host code to a Wasm function, or returning multiple `externref`s to Wasm from a multi-value return function defined in the host. If you do not have host code that matches one of these shapes, then you are not impacted. If Wasmtime\u0027s `VMExternRefActivationsTable` became filled to capacity after passing the first `externref` in, then passing in the second `externref` could trigger a garbage collection. However the first `externref` is not rooted until we pass control to Wasm, and therefore could be reclaimed by the collector if nothing else was holding a reference to it or otherwise keeping it alive. Then, when control was passed to Wasm after the garbage collection, Wasm could use the first `externref`, which at this point has already been freed. We have reason to believe that the effective impact of this bug is relatively small because usage of `externref` is currently quite rare. The bug has been fixed, and users should upgrade to Wasmtime 0.30.0. If you cannot upgrade Wasmtime yet, you can avoid the bug by disabling reference types support in Wasmtime by passing `false` to `wasmtime::Config::wasm_reference_types`.", "id": "PYSEC-2021-320", "modified": "2021-09-17T22:30:49.852358Z", "published": "2021-09-17T20:15:00Z", "references": [ { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://crates.io/crates/wasmtime" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/101998733b74624cbd348a2366d05760b40181f3" }, { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-v4cp-h94r-m7xf" } ] }
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