CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-25903

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 26, 2021 | Modified: Feb 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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25903
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An issue was discovered in the cache crate through 2021-01-01 for Rust. A raw pointer is dereferenced.

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
Cache	Cache_project	*	0.2.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0006.html

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