GHSA-xfhg-9pjg-xg7gHighCVSS 7.5

VTK NULL pointer dereference vulnerability

Published
August 26, 2022
Last Modified
November 18, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-42521 →

📋 Description

There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in VTK, 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/vtk:>= 0, < 9.0.1

🔗 References (6)