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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2020-24890

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

** DISPUTED ** libraw 20.0 has a null pointer dereference vulnerability in parse_tiff_ifd in src/metadata/tiff.cpp, which may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution. NOTE: Checkmarx investigated this and confirmed that it's not a security issue. An error will occur only if you compile the software in a certain way.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • 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