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Red Hat: CVE-2021-38297: Command-line arguments may overwrite global data (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 18, 2021
Added
May 13, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Go before 1.16.9 and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 has a Buffer Overflow via large arguments in a function invocation from a WASM module, when GOARCH=wasm GOOS=js is used.

Solutions

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