vtk/9621.patch
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From 72119ea71422d2892f2a0475fc282835310f8d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Quammen <cory.quammen@kitware.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:10:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] vtkXMLTreeReader: protect against possible nullptr
dereference
Vulnerability reported at
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42521.
Fixes #17818
(cherry picked from commit 9a2fe8ef2ecbf04f811b2e02b71eae8b94aae089)
---
IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx b/IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx
index 64abca37e96..af64572b27f 100644
--- a/IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx
+++ b/IO/Infovis/vtkXMLTreeReader.cxx
@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ int vtkXMLTreeReader::RequestData(
// Get the root element node
xmlNode* rootElement = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
+ if (!rootElement)
+ {
+ vtkErrorMacro(<< "Could not get root element of document.");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
vtkXMLTreeReaderProcessElement(builder, -1, rootElement, this->ReadCharData, this->MaskArrays);
xmlFreeDoc(doc);
--
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