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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High 7.5
In Stomper 5e2741e when a client sends a SEND frame missing the destination header field, the server triggers a null po…
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Medium 5.5
A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 1…
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Medium 5.5
Substance3D - Designer | NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
Substance3D - Designer is 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 condition. Exploitation…
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High 8.2
NVIDIA DGX Spark contains a vulnerability in the system firmware, where a privileged attacker could be able to cause a …
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Medium 5.9
NULL-pointer dereference in Zephyr OCPP CALLRESULT parsing via unchecked strtok_r/atoi
The OCPP 1.6 client in subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp.c reconstructs a session handle and PDU id from the uid field of a CALLRESULT message. In ocpp_process_server_msg() the code calls atoi(strtok_r(uid, "-", &tmp)) without checking the strtok_r return value. When …
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Medium 5.3
rclone before v1.75.0 Denial of Service via TUS nil-response panic
rclone before v1.75.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the WebDAV TUS creation handler that dereferences a nil response before checking for transport errors. A malicious or compromised configured endpoint can reset connections during TUS uploads …
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High 7.5
Invalid Pointer Dereference in CMP Server via Crafted protectionAlg
Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP password based protection verification only checks whether the protectionAlg parameter was not NULL and not its ASN.1 type, before treating it as a PBMParameter. A crafted message can contain a parameter of a different type, which i…
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High 7.5
RPK Server Signature Algorithm Selection Can Dereference a Missing Certificate
Issue summary: In a server or client configuration with RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) enabled, and only the private key (with no associated certificate) configured locally, a NULL pointer dereference may occur when the remote peer solicits raw public keys an…
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Medium 6.9
OpenEXR: OpenEXRCore exr_attr_set_bytes() accepts NULL type_hint with positive hint_length
OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR high-dynamic-range image file format, widely used in the motion picture industry. Versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.12 contain a NULL pointer dereference in the OpenEXRCore function exr_attr_set_b…
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Medium 5.3
Bluetooth HAS: NULL-pointer dereference DoS when a bonded peer reconnects before bt_has_register
The Hearing Access Service (HAS) GATT server in subsys/bluetooth/audio/has.c installs a connection-callback set unconditionally via BT_CONN_CB_DEFINE, so security_changed() runs for every connection that establishes security even before the application has ca…
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High 7.5
DrayTek VigorSwitch Multiple Models Pre-Authentication NULL Pointer Dereference via setget.cgi
Multiple DrayTek VigorSwitch models contain a pre-authentication null pointer dereference vulnerability in the setget.cgi interface. The vulnerability is caused by missing validation when the pass field is absent. A remote attacker can trigger this vulnerabil…
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Medium 4.9
DrayTek VigorSwitch Multiple Models NULL Pointer Dereference via formlogout
Multiple DrayTek VigorSwitch models contain a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the formlogout function. The vulnerability is caused by missing checks for an empty or absent Cookie header before string handling. A remote attacker can trigger this vuln…
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Medium 5.3
ggml-org llama.cpp ggml-RPC Server ggml-rpc.cpp graph_compute null pointer dereference
A vulnerability was determined in ggml-org llama.cpp bec4772f6. This affects the function rpc_server::graph_compute of the file ggml/src/ggml-rpc/ggml-rpc.cpp of the component ggml-RPC Server. Executing a manipulation can lead to null pointer dereference. The…
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High 7.5
kin-openapi openai3filter: nil-pointer panic in ConvertErrors on malformed multipart/form-data body enables unauthenticated DoS
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.10.0 until 0.141.0, openapi3filter.convertParseError in openapi3filter/validation_error_encoder.go dereferences e.Parameter.In without checking whether e.Parameter is nil. A malformed non-string s…
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High 7.1
Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Null Pointer Dereference in HTTP Request Parsing
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the HTTP request parsing functionality of TL-MR6400 v7. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request containing a malformed session cookie head…
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Low 2.1
Incus: Nil-pointer dereference in createDependentVolumesFromBackup on disk.{Volume,VolumeSnapshots,Pool}
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).createDependentVolumesFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains a cluster of unguarded pointer derefs on every dependent-volume entry's `VolumeSnap…
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Medium 4.4
Incus has a Nil-Pointer Dereference Panic via Instance Backup Import (volume omitted)
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).CreateInstanceFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains a nil-pointer dereference that an authenticated user with permission to create instances in…
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Low 2.1
Incus: CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup nil-pointer dereference on volume_snapshots[*].expires_at (sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7)
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains an unguarded `*time.Time` dereference on the `ExpiresAt` field of every volume-snapshot…
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High 7.5
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference.
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Medium 4.7
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference.
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Medium 5.7
Libevent: Null Pointer Dereference in `evws_new_session`
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can dereference invalid list pointers in ws.c when evws_new_session enters its error path after evhttp_start_ws_ succeeds but bufferevent_enable_locking_ fails. evws_connection_free see…
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Medium 6.5
Ipa: freeipa: null pointer dereference in `ipa-enrollment` extended operation (`join_oid`) via missing request value
A flaw was found in the `ipa-enrollment` SLAPI plugin. A remote authenticated client can exploit a null pointer dereference vulnerability by sending a malformed Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) extended operation. By omitting the request value for…
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High 7.1
Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in HTTP Service in TP-Link TL-MR100, TL-MR150, TL-MR6400 and Archer MR600
An unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in TP-Link TL-MR100 v3.2, TL-MR150 v3.2, TL-MR6400 v8.0 and Archer MR600 v2, due to improper handling of exceptional request conditions that may lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A remote at…
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High 7.5
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
X.509IF protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 4.7
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
H.245 protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
Bluetooth BR/EDR FHS protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 4.7
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
CMS protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a null pointer dereference.
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Medium 5.3
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference.
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Medium 6.5
WeKan Board Export REST Endpoints: NULL Pointer Dereference on Invalid authToken Leads to Uncaught Exception / Remote Denial of Service
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 10.38, the /api/boards/:boardId/export, /api/boards/:boardId/attachments/:attachmentId/export, /api/boards/:boardId/export/csv, and /api/boards/:boardId/exportExcel handlers in models/export.js and model…
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High 7.1
RTSP Null Pointer Dereference Denial-of-Service Vulnerability on TP-Link Tapo C100 and C101
Tapo C100/C101 V5 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the RTSP service. An attacker on the local network can send specially crafted requests that cause the service to dereference an invalid pointer, resulting in a service crash and device reb…
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High 7.5
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference.
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Medium 4.3
Modcluster-core: mod_cluster advertise listener: unauthenticated dos via crafted multicast datagram
A flaw was found in mod_cluster's AdvertiseListenerImpl (org.jboss.modcluster core module). A single crafted UDP multicast datagram with a valid HTTP status line and a "Server:" header but without the "Date:", "Digest:", and "Sequence:" headers triggers a Nul…
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Low 3.3
BusyBox FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT wget.c null pointer dereference
A vulnerability has been found in BusyBox up to 1.30.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file networking/wget.c of the component FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT Handler. Such manipulation of the argument -T leads to null pointer dereference. Local access i…
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Medium 5.3
kin-openapi openapi3filter: unauthenticated nil-pointer panic when validating a request against a `content` parameter whose media type has no schema
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.2.0 until 0.144.0, openapi3filter.ValidateRequest can encounter a NULL-pointer-dereference denial of service when an operation declares a content parameter whose application/json media type has no…
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Medium 4.0
adaguc-server GeoJSON coordinate parser (CConvertGeoJSON.cpp) vulnerable to out-of-bounds read and NULL pointer dereference
Adaguc-server is an open source geographical information system to visualize, combine, compare and share real-time meteorological, climatological and remote sensing data via OGC standards. Versions prior to 7.2.2 crash with a memory-safety fault when it parse…
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Medium 6.5
yawkat LZ4 Java: JVM Crash via Null Byte Array in lz4-java Streaming XXHash JNI (StreamingXXHash32JNI / StreamingXXHash64JNI)
yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.1, JNI-backed XXHash implementations fail to validate the byte array object and the off and len arguments in XXHashFactory.nativeInstance().hash32().hash(), XXHashFactory.nativeInstance().hash64…
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Medium 6.5
TOTOLINK EX1200L cstecgi.cgi setWizardCfg null pointer dereference
A vulnerability was detected in TOTOLINK EX1200L 9.3.5u.6146_B20201023. This affects the function setWizardCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit is now publ…
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Medium 6.5
TOTOLINK EX1200L Password Configuration cstecgi.cgi setPasswordCfg null pointer dereference
A security vulnerability has been detected in TOTOLINK EX1200L 9.3.5u.6146_B20201023. Affected by this issue is the function setPasswordCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi of the component Password Configuration Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointe…
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Medium 4.0
Null pointer dereference issue in the image codec module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may aff…