CWE-587 Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer

variant

The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2021-28216UShigh7.8—
BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.
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