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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-43453

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in JerryScript 2.4.0 and prior versions via an out-of-bounds read in parser_parse_for_statement_start in the js-parser-statm.c file. This issue is similar to CVE-2020-29657.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:21 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-43453

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Apr 2022, 21:15 UTC

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in JerryScript 2.4.0 and prior versions via an out-of-bounds read in parser_parse_for_statement_start in the js-parser-statm.c file. This issue is similar to CVE-2020-29657.

osv:CVE-2021-43453
Complete source record
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