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CVE-2019-14584

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 03, 2021 | Modified: Jun 11, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14584
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Null pointer dereference in Tianocore EDK2 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

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
Edk2 Tianocore * 2020-10-21 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat edk2-0:20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8 *
Edk2 Ubuntu bionic *
Edk2 Ubuntu focal *
Edk2 Ubuntu groovy *
Edk2 Ubuntu trusty *
Edk2 Ubuntu upstream *
Edk2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References

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