CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-4816

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 22, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

It was found in FreeBSD 8.0, 6.3 and 4.9, and OpenBSD 4.6 that a null pointer dereference in ftpd/popen.c may lead to remote denial of service of the ftpd service.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 4.6 (including) 4.6 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 4.9 (including) 4.9 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 6.3 (including) 6.3 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References