CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-33572

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 21, 2021 | Modified: Jun 28, 2021
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Linux Security whereby the FSAVD component used in certain F-Secure products can crash while scanning larger packages/fuzzed files. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service (DoS) of the Anti-Virus engine.

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
Cloud_protection_for_salesforce F-secure - (including) - (including)
Elements_for_microsoft_365 F-secure - (including) - (including)
Endpoint_protection F-secure * *
Linux_security F-secure - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References