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- 27 Aug 2020
Exploiting CVE-2019-17026 - A Firefox JIT Bug
A detailed technical analysis of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-17026) in Firefox's SpiderMonkey JIT compiler was presented. The vulnerability involves type confusion and bounds check elimination in the IonMonkey JIT compilation process. The article explores how carefully crafted JavaScript can exploit interactions between multiple compilation chains to bypass JIT compiler safeguards and potentially execute arbitrary code.