CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-23026

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 03, 2022 | Modified: Jan 08, 2022

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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23026
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A NULL pointer dereference in the main() function dhry_1.c of dhrystone 2.1 causes a denial of service (DoS).

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
Dhrystone	Dhrystone_project	2.1 (including)	2.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://fossies.org/linux/privat/old/dhrystone-2.1.tar.gz/dhry_1.c

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