Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-20424 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Lustre

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
lustre
CWE-476

Summary

In the Lustre file system before 2.12.3, mdt_object_remote in the mdt module has a NULL pointer dereference and panic due to the lack of validation for specific fields of packets sent by a client.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)