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CVE-2016-6561

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 31, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6561
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

illumos smbsrv NULL pointer dereference allows system crash.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Illumos Illumos - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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