Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9250 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Jerryscript 1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |