CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-46171

NULL Pointer Dereference

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

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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46171
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Modex v2.11 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference in set_create_id() at xtract.c.

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
Modex	Modex_project	2.11 (including)	2.11 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/nimble-code/Modex/issues/8

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