CWE-587
Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer
The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.
CVE-2021-28216 (GCVE-0-2021-28216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-05 20:44
Modified
2024-08-03 21:40
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CWE
- CWE-587 - A case of occurs in function FpdtStatusCodeListenerPei().
Summary
BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.
References
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Mitigation
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- Never set a pointer to a fixed address.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.