CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-6298

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 24, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.1. This is related to a patch described as 1 of 9. Null Pointer Deref / calloc return value not checked.

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
Ytnef Ytnef_project * 1.9 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References