# CVE-2018-17293: An issue was discovered in WAVM before 2018-09-16.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-09-21 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in WAVM before 2018-09-16. The run function in Programs/wavm/wavm.cpp does not check whether there is Emscripten memory to store the command-line arguments passed by the input WebAssembly file's main function, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash by NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact by crafting certain WebAssembly files.

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## References

- https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM/commit/31d670b6489e6d708c3b04b911cdf14ac43d846d
- https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM/issues/110#issuecomment-421764693

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