VYPR

CWE-587

Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer

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Description

The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.

Using a fixed address is not portable, because that address will probably not be valid in all environments or platforms.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (1)

  • CVE-2021-28216HigAug 5, 2021
    risk 0.51cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.