[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1123746: binaryen: CVE-2025-14957

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: binaryen
Version: 120-4
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/issues/8090
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for binaryen.

CVE-2025-14957[0]:
| A vulnerability was identified in WebAssembly Binaryen up to 125.
| This affects the function IRBuilder::makeLocalGet/IRBuilder::makeLoc
| alSet/IRBuilder::makeLocalTee of the file src/wasm/wasm-ir-
| builder.cpp of the component IRBuilder. Such manipulation of the
| argument Index leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is
| required to approach this attack. The exploit is publicly available
| and might be used. The name of the patch is
| 6fb2b917a79578ab44cf3b900a6da4c27251e0d4. Applying a patch is
| advised to resolve this issue.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-14957
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14957
[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/issues/8090
[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/8099

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore