CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-35907

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 31, 2020 | Modified: Jan 06, 2021

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35907
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An issue was discovered in the futures-task crate before 0.3.5 for Rust. futures_task::noop_waker_ref allows a NULL pointer dereference.

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
Futures-task	Rust-lang	*	0.3.5 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0061.html

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