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CVE-2019-12412

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 19, 2020 | 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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12412
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A flaw in the libapreq2 v2.07 to v2.13 multipart parser can deference a null pointer leading to a process crash. A remote attacker could send a request causing a process crash which could lead to a denial of service attack.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Libapreq2Apache2.07 (including)2.13 (including)
Libapreq2Ubuntubionic*
Libapreq2Ubuntudisco*
Libapreq2Ubuntueoan*
Libapreq2Ubuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Libapreq2Ubuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Libapreq2Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Libapreq2Ubuntutrusty*
Libapreq2Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Libapreq2Ubuntuupstream*
Libapreq2Ubuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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