CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6561

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 31, 2017 | Modified: May 02, 2017
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

illumos smbsrv NULL pointer dereference allows system crash.

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
Illumos Illumos - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References