CVE-2020-1971: NULL Pointer Dereference

December 8, 2020 (updated October 20, 2021)

A NULL pointer dereference and a crash may occur leading to a possible denial of service attack.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1971
www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt

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