Chrome · Dawn
CVE-2026-17946
Uninitialized Memory in Dawn
Overview
Low
Severity
—
CVSS
No
Exploited ITW
Fixed
Fix Status
Files Changed
src/dawn/wire/ChunkedCommandSerializer.h
Patch
From 11e4d46e28ba6123785e1809b26f66e37f9aa532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Ninomiya <kainino@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:21:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [dawn][wire] Zero-init ChunkedCommandSerializer space
Fixed: 515437522
Change-Id: Ia97bf8e68a7612428634c1187f67af96fa899ebf
Reviewed-on: https://dawn-review.googlesource.com/c/dawn/+/312015
Auto-Submit: Kai Ninomiya <kainino@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Loko Kung <lokokung@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Kai Ninomiya <kainino@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/src/dawn/wire/ChunkedCommandSerializer.h b/src/dawn/wire/ChunkedCommandSerializer.h
index 67e4fc7..cac63cb 100644
--- a/src/dawn/wire/ChunkedCommandSerializer.h
+++ b/src/dawn/wire/ChunkedCommandSerializer.h
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@
return;
}
- auto cmdSpace = std::unique_ptr<char[]>(new char[requiredSize]);
+ // Allocate as zero-initialized because padding won't get initialized during command
+ // serialization (and this whole buffer is sent raw to the other end of the wire).
+ auto cmdSpace = std::unique_ptr<char[]>(new char[requiredSize]{});
SerializeBuffer serializeBuffer(cmdSpace.get(), requiredSize);
WireResult rCmd = SerializeCmd(cmd, requiredSize, &serializeBuffer);
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