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Weakness (CWE)

CWE-588: Attempt to Access Child of a Non-structure Pointer

Variant Incomplete

The product casts a non-structure type to a structure type, then accesses a field within the structure.

How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
  1. Requirements

    The choice could be made to use a language that is not susceptible to these issues.

  2. Implementation

    Review of type casting operations can identify locations where incompatible types are cast.

Source: MITRE CWE-588

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  • Medium 6.5

    DOS: Incorrect 802154 Frame Validation for Omitted Source / Dest Addresses

    DOS: Incorrect 802154 Frame Validation for Omitted Source / Dest Addresses. Zephyr versions >= > v2.4.0 contain NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476), Attempt to Access Child of a Non-structure Pointer (CWE-588). For more information, see https://github.com/zeph…