Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-9250
high
Description
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.
References
https://github.com/zherczeg/jerryscript/commit/03a8c630f015f63268639d3ed3bf82cff6fa77d8
https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/e58f2880df608652aff7fd35c45b242467ec0e79