CVE-2021-45117 (GCVE-0-2021-45117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-21 14:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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| https://files.opcfoundation.org/SecurityBulletins… | x_refsource_MISC |
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