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Access of Uninitialized Pointer

CVE-2020-9274

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer

The program accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

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  • Published