CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-14737

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 30, 2018 | Modified: Sep 26, 2018
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
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in libpbc.a in cloudwu PBC through 2017-03-02. A NULL pointer dereference can occur in pbc_wmessage_string in wmessage.c.

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
Pbc Pbc_project * 2017-03-02

Potential Mitigations

References