We experimented to find Null Pointer Exception bugs in 51 popular libraries, and reported 21 bugs to the maintainers of each library.

Of these, 15 reports have been patched, 4 reports are still open, and 2 reports were rejected. The table below lists the reported bugs.

Project Report Status
Activiti Issue 4553 Open
Apache Commons BCEL Issue 289 Open
Apache Commons Configuration Issue 355 Patched
Apache Commons Configuration Issue 365 Patched
Apache Commons Configuration Issue 368 Patched
Apache Commons Configuration Issue 381 Patched
Apache Commons Configuration Issue 382 Rejected
Apache Commons DBCP Issue 352 Patched
Apache Commons IO Issue 569 Rejected
Apache Commons Math Issue 236 Open
Apache Johnzon Issue 117 Patched
Apache Johnzon Issue 123 Patched
Apache Karaf Issue 1825 Patched
Apache Karaf Issue 1826 Patched
Apache PDFBox Issue 178 Patched
Apache TsFile Issue 50 Open
Feign Issue 2304 Patched
JSqlParser Issue 1965 Patched
Kubernetes Java Client Issue 3081 Patched
Nutz Issue 1613 Open
OpenGrok Issue 4542 Patched