CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-39594

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 20, 2021 | Modified: Sep 22, 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
MEDIUM

Other An issue was discovered in swftools through 20200710. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function updateusage() located in swftext.c. It allows an attacker to cause 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
Swftools Swftools * 2020-07-10 (including)
Swftools Ubuntu bionic *
Swftools Ubuntu trusty *
Swftools Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References