NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting vtk package, versions [0,9.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VTK-3026981
  • published26 Aug 2022
  • disclosed26 Aug 2022
  • creditTao Lv

Introduced: 26 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-42521  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vtk to version 9.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx due to missing checks of the return value of libxml2 API 'xmlDocGetRootElement'.

CVSS Base Scores

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