NULL Pointer Dereference
CVE-2010-4816
Summary
It was found in FreeBSD 8.0, 6.3 and 4.9, and OpenBSD 4.6 that a null pointer dereference in ftpd/popen.c may lead to remote denial of service of the ftpd service.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
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- HIGH
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
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.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published