CWE-587 (Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | — | Memory-Unsafe | Undetermined | — |
| language | C | — | Undetermined | — |
| language | C++ | — | Undetermined | — |
| language | C# | — | Undetermined | — |
| language | — | Assembly | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-28216 | 2021-08-05 | BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE. |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-01 | Eric Dalci | 1.0 | — | updated Time_of_Introduction |
| 2008-08-01 | — | 1.0 | — | added/updated white box definitions |
| 2008-09-08 | CWE Content Team | 1.0 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Relationships, Other_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities |
| 2008-11-24 | CWE Content Team | 1.1 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2009-03-10 | CWE Content Team | 1.3 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2009-07-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.5 | — | updated Common_Consequences, Description, Other_Notes |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2011-09-13 | CWE Content Team | 2.1 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2012-05-11 | CWE Content Team | 2.2 | — | updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Taxonomy_Mappings, White_Box_Definitions |
| 2019-01-03 | CWE Content Team | 3.2 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2021-03-15 | CWE Content Team | 4.4 | — | updated Common_Consequences, Weakness_Ordinalities |
| 2023-01-31 | CWE Content Team | 4.10 | — | updated Description |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Relationships, Time_of_Introduction, Type |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2024-02-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.14 | — | updated Demonstrative_Examples |
| 2025-09-09 | CWE Content Team | 4.18 | — | updated Affected_Resources, Functional_Areas |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, References |