CWE-476
AllowedNULL Pointer Dereference
Abstraction: Base · Status: Stable
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
6372 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-XXQV-JC35-W8CJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-21 21:30 – Updated: 2024-10-24 21:31In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: nixge: fix NULL dereference
In function nixge_hw_dma_bd_release() dereference of NULL pointer priv->rx_bd_v is possible for the case of its allocation failure in nixge_hw_dma_bd_init().
Move for() loop with priv->rx_bd_v dereference under the check for its validity.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: nixge: fix NULL dereference\n\nIn function nixge_hw_dma_bd_release() dereference of NULL pointer\npriv-\u003erx_bd_v is possible for the case of its allocation failure in\nnixge_hw_dma_bd_init().\n\nMove for() loop with priv-\u003erx_bd_v dereference under the check for\nits validity.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.",
"id": "GHSA-xxqv-jc35-w8cj",
"modified": "2024-10-24T21:31:02Z",
"published": "2024-10-21T21:30:52Z",
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45752af0247589e6d3dede577415bfe117b4392c"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80e82f7b440b65cf131dce10f487dc73a7046e6b"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/910c0264b64ef2dad8887714a7c56c93e39a0ed3"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9256db4e45e8b497b0e993cc3ed4ad08eb2389b6"
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GHSA-XXW5-6RCH-9WMX
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-01 09:31 – Updated: 2025-08-01 09:31A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the IOMap64.sys driver of ASUS AI Suite 3. The vulnerability can be triggered by a specially crafted input, which may lead to a system crash (BSOD). Refer to the '
Security Update for for AI Suite 3
' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.
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"details": "A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the IOMap64.sys driver of ASUS AI Suite 3. The vulnerability can be triggered by a specially crafted input, which may lead to a system crash (BSOD). Refer to the \u0027\n\nSecurity Update for for AI Suite 3\n\n\u0027 section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.",
"id": "GHSA-xxw5-6rch-9wmx",
"modified": "2025-08-01T09:31:24Z",
"published": "2025-08-01T09:31:23Z",
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"url": "https://www.asus.com/content/security-advisory"
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Mitigation MIT-56
For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished [REF-1484].
Mitigation
Select a programming language that is not susceptible to these issues.
Mitigation
Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is non-null before acting upon it.
Mitigation
Identify all variables and data stores that receive information from external sources, and apply input validation to make sure that they are only initialized to expected values.
Mitigation
Explicitly initialize all variables and other data stores, either during declaration or just before the first usage.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.