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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2021-3596

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in ImageMagick in versions prior to 7.0.10-31 and in ImageMagick6 versions prior to 6.9.11-31 in ReadSVGImage() in coders/svg.c. This issue is due to not checking the return value from libxml2's xmlCreatePushParserCtxt() and uses the value directly, which leads to a crash and segmentation fault.

  • 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