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CVE-2026-56017

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.

CVSS 7.5 · HighBuzz score 21.0

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Buzz score total 21.0

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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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11.0
2 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
10.0
2 sources across 2 categories
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0.0
No KEV entry observed
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0.0
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0.0
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