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Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-587

Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer

Category: VariantCVE: 1

Description

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

Extended Description

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

CVE vulnerabilities with CWE-587 (1)

7.8

CVSS

HIGH

CVE-2021-28216

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

pub. 2021-08-05

Information

ID: CWE-587

Type: Variant

Vulnerabilities: 1