NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ouch package, versions >=0.0.0
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- published24 Sept 2024
- disclosed23 Sept 2024
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Introduced: 23 Sep 2024
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for ouch.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the transmute function, which is called to convert the type of "month" object in ouch::archive::zip::convert_zip_date_time, causing the object's address to be changed to the uninitialized memory region.