CWE-587Variant

Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer

Draft in the CWE catalog · 1 CVE mapped

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CVEs mapped
What it is

The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.

Recent examples
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CVE-2021-28216

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.

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The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-587
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
References (1)
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html