CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40264

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 22, 2023 | Modified: Aug 25, 2023

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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40264
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in FreeImage before 1.18.0 via the FreeImage_CloneTag function inFreeImageTag.cpp.

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
Freeimage	Freeimage_project	*	1.18.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/335/

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