WebAssembly / WebAssembly/binaryen
Invalid LEBs are incorrectly accepted by binary loading
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Description
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked WABT issue comment and trace Binaryen's binary-loading entry point to understand how invalid LEBs are currently accepted. Reproduce the reported input and add coverage for it; done means malformed LEB encodings are rejected during binary loading.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100