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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-24791

🗓️ 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Linux hosts with Wasmtime flaw CVE-2022-24791; upgrade to 0.34.2 or 0.35.2 or disable wasm reference types.

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  - Wasmtime is a standalone JIT-style runtime for WebAssembly, using Cranelift. There is a use after free
    vulnerability in Wasmtime when both running Wasm that uses externrefs and enabling epoch interruption in
    Wasmtime. If you are not explicitly enabling epoch interruption (it is disabled by default) then you are
    not affected. If you are explicitly disabling the Wasm reference types proposal (it is enabled by default)
    then you are also not affected. The use after free is caused by Cranelift failing to emit stack maps when
    there are safepoints inside cold blocks. Cold blocks occur when epoch interruption is enabled. Cold blocks
    are emitted at the end of compiled functions, and change the order blocks are emitted versus defined. This
    reordering accidentally caused Cranelift to skip emitting some stack maps because it expected to emit the
    stack maps in block definition order, rather than block emission order. When Wasmtime would eventually
    collect garbage, it would fail to find live references on the stack because of the missing stack maps,
    think that they were unreferenced garbage, and therefore reclaim them. Then after the collection ended,
    the Wasm code could use the reclaimed-too-early references, which is a use after free. Patches have been
    released in versions 0.34.2 and 0.35.2, which fix the vulnerability. All Wasmtime users are recommended to
    upgrade to these patched versions. If upgrading is not an option for you at this time, you can avoid the
    vulnerability by either: disabling the Wasm reference types proposal, config.wasm_reference_types(false);
    or by disabling epoch interruption if you were previously enabling it. config.epoch_interruption(false).
    (CVE-2022-24791)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Ubuntu Linux-18.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "18.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libmozjs-52-0"},
          {"reference": "libmozjs-52-dev"},
          {"reference": "mozjs38"}
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      }
    ]
  },
  "Ubuntu Linux-20.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "20.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libmozjs-68-0"},
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      }
    ]
  },
  "Ubuntu Linux-22.04": {
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    "constraints": [
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        "release": "22.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libmozjs-91-0"},
          {"reference": "libmozjs-91-dev"},
          {"reference": "mozjs78"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-dbg"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-dev"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-gnome-support"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-af"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ar"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ast"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-be"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bg"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn-bd"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-br"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ca"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cak"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cs"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cy"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-da"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-de"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-dsb"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-el"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-en-gb"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-en-us"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-es-ar"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-es-es"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ga-ie"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-nb-no"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-nn-no"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-pa-in"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-pt-br"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-pt-pt"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-sv-se"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ta-lk"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-zh-cn"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-zh-tw"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-mozsymbols"},
          {"reference": "xul-ext-calendar-timezones"},
          {"reference": "xul-ext-gdata-provider"},
          {"reference": "xul-ext-lightning"}
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ast"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-be"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bg"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn-bd"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-br"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ca"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-et"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-eu"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fy"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fy-nl"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ga-ie"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-gd"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-gl"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-he"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-hr"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-hy"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-id"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-is"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-it"}
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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07 Aug 2025 00:00Current
8.3High risk
Vulners AI Score8.3
CVSS 26.8
CVSS 3.18.1 - 9.8
EPSS0.00469
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