CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-38786

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 19, 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
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

There is a NULL pointer dereference in media/libcedarc/vdecoder of Allwinner R818 SoC Android Q SDK V1.0, which could cause a media crash (denial of service).

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