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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-13617

njs through 0.3.3, used in NGINX, has a heap-based buffer over-read in nxt_vsprintf in nxt/nxt_sprintf.c during error handling, as demonstrated by an njs_regexp_literal call that leads to an njs_parser_lexer_error call and then an njs_parser_scope_error call.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:01 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-13617

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jul 2019, 17:15 UTC

njs through 0.3.3, used in NGINX, has a heap-based buffer over-read in nxt_vsprintf in nxt/nxt_sprintf.c during error handling, as demonstrated by an njs_regexp_literal call that leads to an njs_parser_lexer_error call and then an njs_parser_scope_error call.

osv:CVE-2019-13617
Complete source record
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15093",
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