1902016 - Stringification of null-string violates assertion

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Security, defect)

Description

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4582d908c17fbf7924f5699609fe4a12c28ddc4a/dom/bindings/DOMString.h#82

called from https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4582d908c17fbf7924f5699609fe4a12c28ddc4a/js/xpconnect/src/xpcpublic.h#506

which is called from https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/__GENERATED__/dom/bindings/TrustedTypesBinding.cpp#358.

Only happens with the Trusted Types pref set to true.

The desired behavior needs to be specified: https://github.com/w3c/trusted-types/issues/469#issuecomment-2163050989.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

freddy will look into whether this requires also a bug against the DOM bindings to either fail in the Release case or handle it appropriately without an assert.

Comment 2

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

With https://github.com/w3c/trusted-types/pull/527 stringification of a null-string doesn't happen anymore for Trusted Types. Therefore closing this ticket.