GHSA-xfhg-9pjg-xg7g

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xfhg-9pjg-xg7g
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/08/GHSA-xfhg-9pjg-xg7g/GHSA-xfhg-9pjg-xg7g.json
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Published
2022-08-26T00:03:30Z
Modified
2024-11-18T23:25:38.825699Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
VTK NULL pointer dereference vulnerability
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-08-25T18:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-476"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-09-16T18:47:42Z"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / vtk

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.0.1

Affected versions

8.*

8.1.0
8.1.1
8.1.2

9.*

9.0.0