CVE-2024-11991

Publication date

2024-12-09 14:38:07

Family

Dfinity

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Motokos incremental garbage collector is impacted by an uninitialized memory access bug, caused by incorrect use of write barriers in a few locations. This vulnerability could potentially allow unauthorized read or write access to a Canisters memory. However, exploiting this bug requires the Canister to enable the incremental garbage collector or enhanced orthogonal persistence, which are non-default features in Motoko.