CVE-2021-45290 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2021-45290?

CVE-2021-45290 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exits in Binaryen 103 due to an assertion abort in wasm::handle_unreachable.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-45290?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Webassembly Binaryen.

How do I fix CVE-2021-45290?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-45290 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-45290 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45290, GHSA-c9pj-gf53-pg7p, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45290.