A null pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in Netis WF2880 v2.1.40207. The vulnerability exists in the FUN_004904c8 function of the cgitest.cgi file. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by controlling the environment variable value CONTENT_LENGTH, causing the program to crash and potentially leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
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.