CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.
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A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's parisc LED driver could cause kernel panic or system crash when the create_singlethread...
Sep 18, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMC (Shared Memory Communications) subsystem allows local attackers to cause a kernel p...
Sep 18, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the mwifiex WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. If exploited, it could cause a kernel pani...
Sep 18, 2025This CVE describes a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's RAID10 subsystem. An attacker with local access could trigger a kern...
Sep 18, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the MediaTek vcodec driver of the Linux kernel can cause kernel crashes when video decoding errors occur. ...
Sep 18, 2025This CVE-2022-50380 is a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's /proc/pid/smaps_rollup interface. It allows local attackers to c...
Sep 18, 2025A race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's MD (Multiple Devices) subsystem can cause a kernel crash when freeing memory pools. This affects ...
Sep 18, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's block layer when using polled I/O can cause kernel crashes. This occurs when two tasks ...
Sep 17, 2025This CVE describes a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's TTM (Translation Table Maps) memory management subsystem. When the k...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's skbuff subsystem can cause kernel panics when processing network packets. This affects ...
Sep 17, 2025This CVE describes a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's USB gadget serial driver. An attacker could potentially cause a kern...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPv6 ICMP6 implementation allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial of ser...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's RDMA/cxgb4 driver could allow local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial of servic...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's I2C multiplexer driver could cause kernel crashes or denial of service. This affects sy...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's i2c-designware driver allows system crashes when unexpected device interrupts occur dur...
Sep 17, 2025This CVE-2022-50354 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AMD GPU driver (amdkfd). It allows local attackers to cause a ke...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Stochastic Fair Blue (SFB) queueing discipline can cause a kernel panic when network de...
Sep 17, 2025A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's cx88 media driver allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial of service) or...
Sep 17, 2025This CVE is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's wilc1000 WiFi driver. When the driver fails to allocate a workqueue during ...
Sep 17, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's NTFS3 filesystem driver allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial of servi...
Sep 16, 2025This CVE addresses a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the MediaTek DisplayPort driver in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs when AUX transfer...
Sep 16, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's powerpc architecture allows kernel crashes when generating core dumps for PF_IO_WORKER ...
Sep 16, 2025This vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter nft_set_rbtree component causes improper cleanup of expired interval entries during garbage collect...
Sep 16, 2025A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial of service) duri...
Sep 16, 2025This CVE describes a memory leak and potential kernel crash in the Linux kernel's mmc driver for Realtek RTSX USB SD/MMC card readers. If mmc_add_host...
Sep 16, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's DRM/MSM DPU driver could cause kernel panics or system crashes when specific graphics o...
Sep 16, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ice driver allows local users to crash the system by triggering a device reset when RDM...
Sep 16, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Xe graphics driver. If exploited, it ...
Sep 16, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's bdisp media driver. If the create_workqueue function fails, the syst...
Sep 16, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's block multi-queue (blk-mq) subsystem could cause kernel panics or system crashes when e...
Sep 16, 2025This Linux kernel vulnerability in the SCTP protocol implementation allows a race condition where a thread can send data to a non-existent stream afte...
Sep 16, 2025A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's DRM/MSM DPU driver where devm_kzalloc() may fail and return NULL, but the code d...
Sep 16, 2025This CVE is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the iwl3945 WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. It occurs when create_singlethread_workqueue fail...
Sep 16, 2025This vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's qla2xxx SCSI driver that can cause a kernel panic and system crash when handlin...
Sep 16, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the AMD GPU driver for Linux kernel could cause kernel crashes or denial of service when using CPU to upda...
Sep 15, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's DMI sysfs driver allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic and system crash. This ...
Sep 15, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's iwlwifi driver could cause kernel panics or system crashes when handling specific inter...
Sep 15, 2025A race condition in the Linux kernel's AF_XDP socket implementation allows a NULL pointer dereference when transmitting packets via sendmsg() on a net...
Sep 15, 2025This vulnerability in the Linux kernel's tw68 media driver allows a null pointer dereference when DMA memory allocation fails during buffer preparatio...
Sep 15, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's storvsc driver causes kernel panics when handling virtual Fibre Channel timeouts in Hyp...
Sep 15, 2025A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CIFS filesystem driver causes kernel oops (system crash) when traversing DFS referral l...
Sep 15, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the AMD GPU driver for Linux kernels. When command submission fails due to userptr inva...
Sep 15, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's mac80211_hwsim WiFi simulation module. If exploited, it could cause ...
Sep 15, 2025A race condition in the Linux kernel's RAID5 cache subsystem can cause a null pointer dereference, leading to kernel panic and system crash. This affe...
Sep 15, 2025This CVE addresses a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the mt7996 WiFi driver of the Linux kernel. If exploited, it could cause a kernel panic...
Sep 15, 2025CVE-2022-50336 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's NTFS3 filesystem driver. When mounting a specially crafted malicious ...
Sep 15, 2025This CVE describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ACPI processor idle driver. If exploited, it could cause a kernel pa...
Sep 15, 2025This is a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's drm/bridge driver for Megachips display bridges. It allows local attackers to c...
Sep 15, 2025This is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's io_uring subsystem that allows local attackers to cause a kernel panic (denial ...
Sep 15, 2025This vulnerability is a null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's DVB USB driver for the AZ6027 device. It allows local attackers to cause a kern...
Sep 15, 2025About NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.
Our database tracks 1,251 CVEs classified as CWE-476, with 20 rated critical and 303 rated high severity. The average CVSS score for NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerabilities is 6.1.
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