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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2020-26213

High
7.5/10

Summary

In teler before version 0.0.1, if you run teler inside a Docker container and encounter `errors.Exit` function, it will cause denial-of-service (`SIGSEGV`) because it doesn't get process ID and process group ID of teler properly to kills. The issue is patched in teler 0.0.1 and 0.0.1-dev5.1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • 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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