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Re:Dereferencing NULL Pointer, without a Seg Fault by xfs on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @10:50PM (#4227485)
For an actual NULL pointer dereference resulting in arbitrary code execution: CVE-2009-0385.
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Re:Dereferencing NULL Pointer, without a Seg Fault by smsm42 on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:37AM (#4227744)
Well, technically it's not a NULL pointer dereference, it's (NULL+user controlled data) pointer dereference, which is quite a different matter. See e.g. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500514/100/... for the explanation of the code.
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