CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-36661

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 07, 2022 | Modified: Sep 12, 2022
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

xhyve commit dfbe09b was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component vi_pci_read(). This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service via unspecified vectors.

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
Xhyve Xhyve_project 2021-10-02 (including) 2021-10-02 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References