CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-38785

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 18, 2022 | Modified: Jan 26, 2022
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
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

There is a NULL pointer deference in the Allwinner R818 SoC Android Q SDK V1.0 camera driver /dev/cedar_dev that could use the ioctl cmd IOCTL_GET_IOMMU_ADDR to cause a system crash.

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_q_sdk Allwinnertech 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References