CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-25804

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 26, 2021 | Modified: Aug 04, 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

A NULL-pointer dereference in Open in avi.c of VideoLAN VLC Media Player 3.0.11 can a denial of service (DOS) in the application.

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
Vlc_media_player Videolan 3.0.11 (including) 3.0.11 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References