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RUSTSEC-2026-0156

Bad-free in `MetaCallException::new`

Details

`exception_struct` is a local stack variable, but the code passes its address to the C language as `&mut exception_struct as *mut _ as *mut c_void`. Then, the returned `MetaCallException` value is stored here: ```rust Ok(Self { exception_struct: Arc::new(exception_struct), value: exception_ptr, leak: false, }) ``` Because leak is false, the destructor will run later. But the original exception pointer points to Rust stack memory.

## Trigger

```rust #[test] fn exception_bad_free_safe_api() { let original = metacall::MetaCallException::new( "test", "test", "test", 1, );

drop(original); // AddressSanitizer: bad-free } ```

## Impact

Every time the `MetaCallException` is created, when it is dropped, it leads to a bad-free. This can be triggered through the safe public API `MetaCallException::new()`, with no `unsafe` required from the caller.

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Affected packages

crates.io/metacall
Introduced in: 0.0.0-0

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