SB2020060108 - Multiple vulnerabilities in JerryScript
Published: June 1, 2020 Updated: January 22, 2021
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13649)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error during certain out-of-memory conditions in the "parser/js/js-scanner.c" file, as demonstrated by a "scanner_reverse_info_list" NULL pointer dereference and a "scanner_scan_all assertion" failure. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13623)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within a proxy operation. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13622)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when property key query for a Proxy object returns unintended data. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/69f8e78c2f8d562bd6d8002b5488f1662ac30d24
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3786
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3788
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3785
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182612
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3787
- https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/pull/3797
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182617