Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Pointer Manipulation.This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.4.0 before 7.6.0, from 7.0.0 before 7.3.0.10, from 6.1.0 before 6.1.2.27, from 6.0.0 before 6.0., from 5.3.0 before 5.3., from 4.4a before 5.2.*.
The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connext_professional | Rti | 4.4a (including) | 6.1.2.27 (excluding) |
| Connext_professional | Rti | 7.0.0 (including) | 7.3.0.10 (excluding) |
| Connext_professional | Rti | 7.4.0 (including) | 7.6.0 (excluding) |
An attacker can supply a pointer for memory locations that the product is not expecting. If the pointer is dereferenced for a write operation, the attack might allow modification of critical state variables, cause a crash, or execute code. If the dereferencing operation is for a read, then the attack might allow reading of sensitive data, cause a crash, or set a variable to an unexpected value (since the value will be read from an unexpected memory location). There are several variants of this weakness, including but not necessarily limited to: