NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting mcj package, versions [,3.2.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MCJ-2380767
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-32280  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mcj to version 3.2.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in fig2dev before 3.2.8.. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function compute_closed_spline() located in trans_spline.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service. The fixed version of fig2dev is 3.2.8.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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