CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38497

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 13, 2022 | Modified: Aug 08, 2023

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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38497
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

LIEF commit 365a16a was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component CoreFile.tcc:69.

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
Lief	Lief-project	*	0.12.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF/issues/766

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