CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-8755

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 18, 2019 | Modified: Dec 23, 2019

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

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8755
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout.

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
Mac_os_x	Apple	*	10.15 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://support.apple.com/HT210634

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