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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2019-6460

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_field_set_name() in the file rec-field.c in librec.a.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • 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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  • Published