CVE-2021-39219: Wrong type for `Linker`-define functions when used across two `Engine`s
As a Rust library the wasmtime
crate clearly marks which functions are safe and which are unsafe
, guaranteeing that if consumers never use unsafe
then it should not be possible to have memory unsafety issues in their embeddings of Wasmtime. An issue was discovered in the safe API of Linker::func_*
APIs. These APIs were previously not sound when one Engine
was used to create the Linker
and then a different Engine
was used to create a Store
and then the Linker
was used to instantiate a module into that Store
. Cross-Engine
usage of functions is not supported in Wasmtime and this can result in type confusion of function pointers, resulting in being able to safely call a function with the wrong type.
Triggering this bug requires using at least two Engine
values in an embedding and then additionally using two different values with a Linker
(one at the creation time of the Linker
and another when instantiating a module with the Linker
).
It’s expected that usage of more-than-one Engine
in an embedding is relatively rare since an Engine
is intended to be a globally shared resource, so the expectation is that the impact of this issue is relatively small.
The fix implemented is to change this behavior to panic!()
in Rust instead of silently allowing it. Using different Engine
instances with a Linker
is a programmer bug that wasmtime
catches at runtime.
References
- crates.io/crates/wasmtime
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-q879-9g95-56mx
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/b39f087414f27ae40c44449ed5d1154e03449bff
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-q879-9g95-56mx
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAVBRYDDUIY2ZR3K3FO4BVYJKIMJ5TP7
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z2Z33FTXFQ6EOINVEQIP4DFBG53G5XIY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39219
- rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0110.html
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