CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-23879

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 10, 2021 | Modified: Nov 12, 2021
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

pdf2json v0.71 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference in the component ObjectStream::getObject.

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
Pdf2json Flowpaper 0.71 (including) 0.71 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References