CVE-2021-42521CWE-400

There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in VTK before 9.2.5, and it lies in IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx

published August 25, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in VTK before 9.2.5, and it lies in IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx. The vendor didn't check the return value of libxml2 API 'xmlDocGetRootElement', and try to dereference it. It is unsafe as the return value can be NULL and that NULL pointer dereference may crash the application.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01316 · 70.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2022-08-25T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 AUG 00:00Z
    There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in VTK before 9.2.5, and it lies in IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx
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