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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2022-39392 EUVD-2022-7220GHSA-44mr-8vmm-wjhgRUSTSEC-2022-0076RUSTSEC-2022-0102

Wasmtime vulnerable to out of bounds read/write with zero-memory-pages configuration

Published Nov 10, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to version 2.0.2, there is a bug in Wasmtime's implementation of its pooling instance allocator when the allocator is configured to give WebAssembly instances a maximum of zero pages of memory. In this configuration, the virtual memory mapping for WebAssembly memories did not meet the compiler-required configuration requirements for safely executing WebAssembly modules. Wasmtime's default settings require virtual memory page faults to indicate that wasm reads/writes are out-of-bounds, but the pooling allocator's configuration would not create an appropriate virtual memory mapping for this meaning out of bounds reads/writes can successfully read/write memory unrelated to the wasm sandbox within range of the base address of the memory mapping created by the pooling allocator. This bug is not applicable with the default settings of the `wasmtime` crate. This bug can only be triggered by setting `InstanceLimits::memory_pages` to zero. This is expected to be a very rare configuration since this means that wasm modules cannot allocate any pages of linear memory. All wasm modules produced by all current toolchains are highly likely to use linear memory, so it's expected to be unlikely that this configuration is set to zero by any production embedding of Wasmtime. This bug has been patched and users should upgrade to Wasmtime 2.0.2. This bug can be worked around by increasing the `memory_pages` allotment when configuring the pooling allocator to a value greater than zero. If an embedding wishes to still prevent memory from actually being used then the `Store::limiter` method can be used to dynamically disallow growth of memory beyond 0 bytes large. Note that the default `memory_pages` value is greater than zero.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bytecodealliance wasmtime < 2.0.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS thunderbird No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mozjs78 +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mozjs52 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS mozjs38 +1 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io wasmtime >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2 2.0.2 GHSA-44mr-8vmm-wjhg
crates.io wasmtime < 1.0.2 1.0.2 GHSA-44mr-8vmm-wjhg
crates.io wasmtime >= 0.0.0-0, < 1.0.2 · >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2 1.0.2, 2.0.2 RUSTSEC-2022-0076

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