CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-9250
The lexer_process_char_literal function in jerry-core/parser/js/js-lexer.c in JerryScript 1.0 does not skip memory allocation for empty strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via malformed JavaScript source code, related to the jmem_heap_free_block function.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- jerryscript:jerryscript
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038413
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/e58f2880df608652aff7fd35c45b242467ec0e79
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/1821
- https://github.com/zherczeg/jerryscript/commit/03a8c630f015f63268639d3ed3bf82cff6fa77d8
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038413