There is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in VTK before 9.2.5, 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2022-08-25T00:00:00

Updated: 2023-05-11T00:00:00

Reserved: 2021-10-15T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-42521

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-25T18:15:09.140

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:39:11.030


Link: CVE-2021-42521

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