A vulnerability has been identified in JT Open (All versions < V11.5), PLM XML SDK (All versions < V7.1.0.014). The affected applications contain a null pointer dereference vulnerability while parsing specially crafted XML files. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to crash the application causing denial of service condition.
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.