Fedora: Security Advisory for vtk (FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52)

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Fedora 37 : vtk (2023-2cf9dd7d52)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52 advisory. Add upstream patch for CVE-2021-42521 - vtkXMLTreeReader: possible nullptr dereference Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from th...

CVE-2021-42521

VTK vulnerability CVE-2021-42521: a NULL pointer dereference in IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx due to the vendor not checking xmlDocGetRootElement’s return value. Affected: VTK before 9.2.5. Impact: possible crash of the application. Root cause: potential NULL dereference when parsing XML with l...