Wasmtime: Panic when transcoding misaligned utf-16 strings

Impact Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings into the Component Model's utf16 or latin1+utf16 encodings improperly verified the alignment of reallocated strings. This meant that unaligned pointers could be passed to the host for transcoding which would trigger a host panic. This panic ...

CVE-2026-34942 Wasmtime panics when transcoding misaligned utf-16 strings

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings into the Component Model's utf16 or latin1+utf16 encodings improperly verified the alignment of reallocated strings. This meant that unaligned pointers could be...

CVE-2026-34942

Wasmtime VM exposes a DoS risk due to a panic-triggering path when transcoding strings into utf16/latin1+utf16. Root cause: alignment verification for reallocated strings was improper, allowing unaligned pointers to be passed to the host by a malicious guest. Affected versions prior to fixed rele...