Interpreter abort via oversized buffer allocation
Published May 12, 2023 · Updated Jan 24, 2025
Resource exhaustion in JerryScript 3.0 allows context-dependent attackers to abort the interpreter with crafted JavaScript. SharedArrayBuffer.prototype.slice and typed-array construction accept attacker-controlled 2 GiB buffer sizes, pass them through ecma_arraybuffer_allocate_buffer to jmem_heap_alloc, and invoke malloc without an effective allocation limit. Local execution of the crafted script is required; the demonstrated result is an out-of-memory abort that interrupts interpreter availability, with no reported data disclosure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in JerryScript 3.0 allows context-dependent attackers to abort the interpreter with crafted JavaScript. SharedArrayBuffer.prototype.slice and typed-array construction accept attacker-controlled 2 GiB buffer sizes, pass them through ecma_arraybuffer_allocate_buffer to jmem_heap_alloc, and invoke malloc without an effective allocation limit. Local execution of the crafted script is required; the demonstrated result is an out-of-memory abort that interrupts interpreter availability, with no reported data disclosure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-31914
- Published
- May 12, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 24, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 12, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- JerryScript oversized ArrayBuffer proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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