India’s cybersecurity agency, CERT-In, has released a high-level alert concerning numerous devices that use MediaTek processors. The notice, tagged CIVN-2025-0119, points to serious security flaws ...

CERT-In warns of serious flaws in MediaTek chipsets, risking data theft or device takeover; patches issued, users urged to update and avoid unsafe networks.

That's why code is strewn with checks to make sure a pointer isn't null before you try to dereference it. These checks aren't just annoying to write, they slow down your application. Yet if you miss ...

There is a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by attackers to gain root access to a vulnerable machine. Th ere is a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Linux ...

CVE-2021-3449, as the denial-of-server vulnerability is tracked, is the result of a null pointer dereference bug. Cryptographic engineer Filippo Valsorda said on Twitter that the flaw could ...

If we kept the pointer uninitialized, anything could happen when we dereference it, with a segmentation fault being one of the better outcomes. Other than NULL, the concept remains that pointers ...

Dereferencing is the action of taking the value that the pointer is pointing at. In this specific case, the NULL pointer was sent to this function, and while the function tried to dereference the ...

While two of the vulnerabilities lead to a crash caused by null pointer dereferencing (merely annoying), a third vulnerability causes memory corruption, which could lead to malicious code ...

MacOS has quite a fine history of null-pointer dereference vulnerabilities. That’s when a pointer is still set to NULL, or 0, and the program errantly tries to access that memory location.

access of uninitialized pointer and NULL pointer dereference. To avoid the exploitation, users should update the Adobe app on their devices. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team’s ...