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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2022-3116

High
7.5/10

Summary

The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a Null Pointer Dereferance. An attacker with network access to an application that depends on the vulnerable code path can cause the application to crash.

  • 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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  • Published