Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in quickjs-ng, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Announced

2026-08-20

Revised

2026-08-20

Access

remote

Bugs

#969863

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202608-19

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
dev-libs/quickjs-ng	*	< 0.12.0	>= 0.12.0

Background

quickjs-ng is a small and embeddable JavaScript engine. It aims to support the latest ECMAScript specification. It is a fork of QuickJS.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in quickjs-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All quickjs-ng users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/quickjs-ng-0.12.0"

References

• CVE-2026-0821
• CVE-2026-1144
• CVE-2026-1145