Variant weakness
Draft
CWE-587: Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer
The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.
1
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Variant
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
Using a fixed address is not portable, because that address will probably not be valid in all environments or platforms.
Real-world CVEs
1 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-587 (Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first.