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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2019-11867

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

Realtek NDIS driver rt640x64.sys, file version 10.1.505.2015, fails to do any size checking on an input buffer from user space, which the driver assumes has a size greater than zero bytes. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must send an IRP with a system buffer size of 0.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • 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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published