Weakness (CWE)
CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
How to prevent it (5 mitigations)
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Implementation
For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished [REF-1484].
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Requirements
Select a programming language that is not susceptible to these issues.
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Implementation
Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is non-null before acting upon it.
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Architecture and Design
Identify all variables and data stores that receive information from external sources, and apply input validation to make sure that they are only initialized to expected values.
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Implementation
Explicitly initialize all variables and other data stores, either during declaration or just before the first usage.
Source: MITRE CWE-476
2,667 results · Feed
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Low 2.4
NanaZip: NULL pointer dereference in Extract() of all seven NanaZip custom archive handlers when extracting/testing the whole archive
NanaZip is the 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. Prior to 6.5.1749.0, NanaZip's seven in-house IInArchive handlers in NanaZip.Codecs unconditionally dereference the caller-supplied Indices array inside Extract when the archive engin…
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Medium 4.4
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Configuration of a specific SSH option results in mgd crash
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the management daemon (mgd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, high-privileged attacker setting or deactivating a specific SSH configuration parameter to create a Denial of Service (Do…
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High 7.5
Zeek < 8.0.9 Null Pointer Dereference DoS via Kerberos KRB_ERROR Parsing
Zeek before 8.0.9 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in its Kerberos protocol analyzer that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the sensor by sending a crafted KRB_ERROR message with error-code 25 (KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED) contain…
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Low 3.3
GNU LibreDWG DWG File dwg.c dwg_next_entity null pointer dereference
A vulnerability was found in GNU LibreDWG up to 0.13.4. The impacted element is the function dwg_next_entity of the file src/dwg.c of the component DWG File Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument next_obj results in null pointer dereference. The a…
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Medium 4.6
NULL Pointer Dereference in GNU patch
GNU patch is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference when processing a specially crafted unified-diff patch file. Improper handling of consecutive end-of-file newline markers can corrupt internal hunk (single block of changes in diff) data structures, causin…
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Medium 5.5
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
SSH protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.16 allows denial of service
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High 7.5
NATS Server: Pre-auth server crash via double INFO in leafnode handshake
NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.12.8 and 2.11.17, an unauthenticated peer with network access to a leafnode listener with compression enabled could crash the server during the pre-au…
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Medium 5.5
ONNX: Null Pointer Dereference in Upsample Version Converter Adapter (Zero Inputs)
Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is an open standard for machine learning interoperability. From 1.9.0 before 1.22.0, onnx.version_converter.convert_version() can dereference a null pointer in Upsample_6_7::adapt_upsample_6_7() in onnx/version_converter/ad…
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Medium 5.5
A NULL pointer dereference in the SQLite Session Extension in SQLite 3.53.1 and SQLite trunk builds before check-in e80…
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Medium 4.7
NULL pointer dereference in Zephyr Dhara FTL disk driver on flash read error during journal resume
The Dhara flash translation layer disk driver (drivers/disk/ftl_dhara.c) implemented the dhara_nand_ callbacks so that, on a flash error, the error code was written unconditionally through the caller-supplied dhara_error_t err pointer (e.g. *err = DHARA_E_ECC…
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Medium 5.5
A NULL pointer dereference in smooth_parse_stream_index() in src/media_tools/mpd.c in GPAC master HEAD before commit b3…
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Medium 5.5
DNG SDK | NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
DNG SDK versions 1.7.1 2536 and earlier are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could result in an application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, leading to a denial-of-service condi…
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Low 3.3
GPAC Media File write_nhml.c nhmldump_send_frame null pointer dereference
A flaw has been found in GPAC 26.02.0. This affects the function nhmldump_send_frame of the file src/filters/write_nhml.c of the component Media File Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to null pointer dereference. The attack requires local access. The…
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High 7.5
mrubyc through 3.4.1 was found to contain a NULL pointer dereference in src/vm.c in op_super() / OP_SUPER due to a miss…
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Medium 4.6
NULL-pointer dereference DoS in MAX32 USB device controller transfer-completion handlers
The MAX32xxx USB device controller driver (drivers/usb/udc/udc_max32.c, compatible adi_max32_usbhs) dereferenced an endpoint buffer in its OUT and IN transfer-completion handlers without checking it for NULL. udc_event_xfer_out_done() called net_buf_add(buf, …
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High 8.7
Null Pointer Dereference in WatchGuard Fireware OS iked Process
A null pointer dereference vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware OS may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to create a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by sending specially crafted IKEv2 messages. This vulnerability affects both the Mobile User VPN with …
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Medium 6.5
Pipewire: raop rtsp null deref
RAOP module accepts unbounded Content-Length values and does not check the pw_array_add() return.
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Medium 5.3
In Modem, there is a possible system crash due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of servic…
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High 7.5
A NULL pointer dereference in the AP4_AtomSampleTable::GetSample() function of Aleksoid1978 MPC-BE before commit 4341cb…
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Medium 6.2
A NULL pointer dereference in the AP4_TkhdAtom::GetTrackId() function of Aleksoid1978 MPC-BE before commit 4341cb3 allo…
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Medium 5.3
Woodpecker < 3.15.0 - Unauthenticated NULL Pointer Dereference in /api/orgs/lookup Enables Log-Flooding Denial of Service
Woodpecker before 3.15.0 registers the /api/orgs/lookup/*org_full_name endpoint without authentication middleware, and the LookupOrg handler unconditionally dereferences the session user (user.ForgeID, via ForgeFromUser) when selecting the forge to query. For…
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Medium 6.2
NULL-pointer dereference in MCUmgr serial/console SMP transport on buffer-pool exhaustion
mcumgr_serial_process_frag() in subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/transport/src/serial_util.c calls net_buf_reset() on the result of smp_packet_alloc() before checking it for NULL. smp_packet_alloc() uses net_buf_alloc(K_NO_WAIT) against the shared MCUmgr packet pool (CONFI…
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High 7.5
JavaScript::Minifier::XS versions before 0.16 for Perl crash with a NULL pointer dereference when the first meaningful token of the input is a slash
JavaScript::Minifier::XS versions before 0.16 for Perl crash with a NULL pointer dereference when the first meaningful token of the input is a slash. The regexp versus division disambiguator in JsTokenizeString (XS.xs) inspects the previous token's last byte …
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Medium 6.5
Remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference in Bluetooth LE Audio BAP unicast client QoS-state handling
The Zephyr Bluetooth LE Audio Basic Audio Profile (BAP) unicast client mishandles peer-supplied ASE state notifications. In unicast_client_ep_qos_state() (subsys/bluetooth/audio/bap_unicast_client.c), the handler writes attacker-controlled QoS fields (interva…
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High 7.5
Muhammara has a NULL pointer dereference in LZWDecode filter when DecodeParms omits EarlyChange key
## Summary A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in `PDFParser::CreateFilterForStream()` when processing a PDF stream with `/Filter /LZWDecode` and a `/DecodeParms` dictionary that does not contain the `EarlyChange` key. This causes an access violat…
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High 8.8
iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption Commit 60f030f7418d ("iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE") fixed a NULL pointer dereference in an unlikely situ…
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High 7.5
Envoy: Segmentation fault when using %REQUESTED_SERVER_NAME% in log format
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.37.0 until 1.37.5 and 1.38.3, when the %REQUESTED_SERVER_NAME(X:Y)% is used in log format and host related options is specified, like HOST_FIRST, SNI_FIRST, it's pos…
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Medium 6.5
Envoy: grpc_stats filter segfault on Connect protocol requests to direct_response routes
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.26.0 until 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3, the envoy.filters.http.grpc_stats filter crashes (null pointer dereference / segfault) when a Connect protocol reques…
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Medium 5.9
Envoy: Null pointer deref in internal redirects
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.18.0 until 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3, the router filter contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when handling HTTP 303 (See Other) internal redir…
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Medium 6.5
Authenticated Denial of Service via Malicious Backup Tarball in LXD
Nil-pointer dereference in CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup in LXD up to version 6.8 and 5.21 on Linux allows an authenticated user with can_create_storage_volumes permissions to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted custom-volume backup tarball that …
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High 7.5
GV-LPC2011/LPC2211 - unauthorized null pointer dereference vulnerability in packet parsing
An unauthenticated NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the HTTP request parsing logic of multiple CGI components in GeoVision GV-LPC2011 and GV-LPC2211 V1.12 and earlier. The vulnerability is caused by improper validation of required HTTP request…
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High 7.5
GV-LPC2011/LPC2211 - unauthorized null pointer dereference vulnerability (IEEE8021x_upload.cgi)
An unauthenticated NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in IEEE8021x_upload.cgi in GeoVision GV-LPC2011 and GV-LPC2211 V1.12 and earlier. The vulnerability is caused by improper validation of multipart upload headers when processing certificate-relat…
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High 8.7
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists that could cause a denial-of-service condition, rendering the dev…
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Low 1.7
Nokogiri: Null Pointer Dereference calling methods on uninitialized wrapper classes
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. Prior to 1.19.4, Nokogiri contains a bug when calling certain methods on allocated-but-uninitialized native wrapper classes that inherit from Nokogiri::XML::Node. This caused a…
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High 7.5
hv_netvsc: use kmap_local_page in netvsc_copy_to_send_buf
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hv_netvsc: use kmap_local_page in netvsc_copy_to_send_buf netvsc_copy_to_send_buf() copies page buffer entries into the VMBus send buffer using phys_to_virt() on the entry PFN. Entries for th…
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High 7.5
udp: clear skb->dev before running a sockmap verdict
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udp: clear skb->dev before running a sockmap verdict On the UDP receive path skb->dev is repurposed as dev_scratch (the truesize/state cache set by udp_set_dev_scratch()), through the union {…
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High 7.5
net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master syzkaller reported a kernel panic in bond_rr_gen_slave_id() reached via xdp_master_redirect(). Full decoded trace: https:…
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High 7.5
netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix potential NULL dereference in ttl check
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix potential NULL dereference in ttl check The nf_osf_ttl() function accessed skb->dev to perform a local interface address lookup without verifying that the device…
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High 7.5
libceph: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in decode_choose_args()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in decode_choose_args() A message of type CEPH_MSG_OSD_MAP contains an OSD map that itself contains a CRUSH map. When decoding this CRUSH map in crush_de…
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High 7.8
drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races There look to be some nasty races here when triggering the invalidate_mappings hook: 1) We do xe_bo_alloc() followed by the attach, before the ac…