CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-39532

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 20, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024

CVSS 3.x

6.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39532
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An issue was discovered in libslax through v0.22.1. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function slaxLexer() located in slaxlexer.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libslax	Juniper	*	0.22.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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