CVE-2024-7884: ic-cdk has a memory leak when calling a canister method via `ic_cdk::call`
When a canister method is called via ic_cdk::call*
, a new Future CallFuture
is created and can be awaited by the caller to get the execution result. Internally, the state of the Future is tracked and stored in a struct called CallFutureState
. A bug in the polling implementation of the CallFuture
allows multiple references to be held for this internal state and not all references were dropped before the Future
is resolved. Since we have unaccounted references held, a copy of the internal state ended up being persisted in the canister’s heap and thus causing a memory leak.
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