CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-25462

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 09, 2021 | Modified: Sep 23, 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
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in NPU driver prior to SMR Sep-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to cause memory corruption.

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
Android Google 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Android Google 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Android Google 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References