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CVE-2021-45117 (GCVE-0-2021-45117)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-21 14:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:39
VLAI
Summary
The OPC autogenerated ANSI C stack stubs (in the NodeSets) do not handle all error cases. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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