Bug 1222732 (CVE-2024-23076) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-23076: jfreechart: null pointer exception in the /labels/BubbleXYItemLabelGenerator.java component
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-23076: jfreechart: null pointer exception in the /labels/Bubb...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2024-23076
Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: Leap 15.6
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Fridrich Strba
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/401508/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-23076:7.5:(AV:...
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Reported: 2024-04-12 13:26 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-04-29 05:51 UTC (History)
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-04-12 13:26:09 UTC 
JFreeChart v1.5.4 was discovered to contain a NullPointerException via the component /labels/BubbleXYItemLabelGenerator.java. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple third parties who believe there was not reasonable evidence to determine the existence of a vulnerability. The submission may have been based on a tool that is not sufficiently robust for vulnerability identification.

References:
http://jfreechart.com
https://github.com/jfree/jfreechart
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-23076
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274494
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23076
https://gist.github.com/LLM4IG/115de1f7c3051403f0301cee0d293518
Comment 1 Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-04-12 13:27:07 UTC 
Affected codestream:
- openSUSE:Factory/jfreechart
Comment 2 Fridrich Strba 2024-04-29 05:51:03 UTC 
This is speaking about null pointer exception when null pointer is passed. This is just normal in Java code and not any vulnerability. This might be a bug if the exception is not caught, but hardly any vulnerability.