CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-42577

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 11, 2022 | Modified: Mar 18, 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

An issue was discovered in Softing OPC UA C++ SDK before 5.70. A malformed OPC/UA message abort packet makes the client crash with a NULL pointer dereference.

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
Datafeed_opc_suite Softing * 5.19 (including)
Opc_ua_c++_software_development_kit Softing * 5.70.0 (excluding)
Secure_integration_server Softing * 1.22 (including)

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