CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-45769

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 14, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024

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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45769
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A NULL pointer dereference in AcseConnection_parseMessage at src/mms/iso_acse/acse.c of libiec61850 v1.5.0 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libiec61850	Mz-automation	1.5.0 (including)	1.5.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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