CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-28855

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 14, 2021 | Modified: Apr 19, 2021
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Deark before 1.5.8, a specially crafted input file can cause a NULL pointer dereference in the dbuf_write function (src/deark-dbuf.c).

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
Deark Entropymine * 1.5.8 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References