Bug 2494682 (CVE-2026-56017) - CVE-2026-56017 JavaScript::Minifier::XS: JavaScript::Minifier::XS: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference with crafted input
Summary: CVE-2026-56017 JavaScript::Minifier::XS: JavaScript::Minifier::XS: Denial of ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-56017
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-29 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 22:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-29 21:02:44 UTC
JavaScript::Minifier::XS versions before 0.16 for Perl crash with a NULL pointer dereference when the first meaningful token of the input is a slash.

The regexp versus division disambiguator in JsTokenizeString (XS.xs) inspects the previous token's last byte to choose between a regexp literal and a division operator. When a slash is the first meaningful token, with the start of input or only whitespace and comments before it, there is no valid preceding token: the walk back over whitespace and comment nodes runs off the head of the node list to NULL, and the byte lookup reads through a NULL contents pointer at an underflowed length index. The following identifier check dereferences the same NULL pointer.

The crash is reachable through the public minify() API, so input as small as a single slash byte crashes the calling process. A service that minifies untrusted or third-party JavaScript can be crashed by a remote request, causing denial of service.


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