Recommended action

Monitor this advisory for an available fix and review any installs of the affected package.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

pywasm3 contains a global buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault affects pywasm3 (pip). Severity is critical. wasm3 v0.5.0 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault via the function "PreserveRegisterIfOccupied" in wasm3/source/m3_compile.c.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in pip. A critical vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Evidence and references

Recommended action

Monitor this advisory for an available fix and review any installs of the affected package.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

pywasm3 contains a global buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault affects pywasm3 (pip). Severity is critical. wasm3 v0.5.0 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault via the function "PreserveRegisterIfOccupied" in wasm3/source/m3_compile.c.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in pip. A critical vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Evidence and references