NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsass-devel  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (69th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBSASSDEVEL-1328236
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Dec 2018

Introduced: 3 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsass-devel package and not the libsass-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

In LibSass 3.5.5, a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function Sass::Selector_List::populate_extends in SharedPtr.hpp (used by ast.cpp and ast_selectors.cpp) may cause a Denial of Service (application crash) via a crafted sass input file.