CVE-2021-42521 (GCVE-0-2021-42521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-25 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 03:30
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a vtk Version: VTK - 9.0.0 and before
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