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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11837

njs through 0.3.1, used in NGINX, has a segmentation fault in String.prototype.toBytes for negative arguments, related to nxt_utf8_next in nxt/nxt_utf8.h and njs_string_offset in njs/njs_string.c.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:34 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-11837

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 May 2019, 14:29 UTC

njs through 0.3.1, used in NGINX, has a segmentation fault in String.prototype.toBytes for negative arguments, related to nxt_utf8_next in nxt/nxt_utf8.h and njs_string_offset in njs/njs_string.c.

osv:CVE-2019-11837
Complete source record
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