dwarf_elf_object_access_internals_init(void* obj_in,
    dwarf_elf_handle elf,
    int* error)
{
    dwarf_elf_object_access_internals_t*obj =
        (dwarf_elf_object_access_internals_t*)obj_in;
    char *ehdr_ident = 0;
    Dwarf_Half machine = 0;
    obj->elf = elf;

    if ((ehdr_ident = elf_getident(elf, NULL)) == NULL) {
        *error = DW_DLE_ELF_GETIDENT_ERROR;
        return DW_DLV_ERROR;
    }

    obj->is_64bit = (ehdr_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64);


    if (ehdr_ident[EI_DATA] == ELFDATA2LSB){
        obj->endianness = DW_OBJECT_LSB;
    } else if (ehdr_ident[EI_DATA] == ELFDATA2MSB){
        obj->endianness = DW_OBJECT_MSB;
    }

    if (obj->is_64bit) {
#ifdef HAVE_ELF64_GETEHDR
        obj->ehdr64 = elf64_getehdr(elf);
        if (obj->ehdr64 == NULL) {
            *error = DW_DLE_ELF_GETEHDR_ERROR;
            return DW_DLV_ERROR;
        }
        obj->section_count = obj->ehdr64->e_shnum;
        machine = obj->ehdr64->e_machine;
        obj->machine = machine;
#else
        *error = DW_DLE_NO_ELF64_SUPPORT;
        return DW_DLV_ERROR;
#endif
    } else {
        obj->ehdr32 = elf32_getehdr(elf);
        if (obj->ehdr32 == NULL) {
            *error = DW_DLE_ELF_GETEHDR_ERROR;
            return DW_DLV_ERROR;
        }
        obj->section_count = obj->ehdr32->e_shnum;
        machine = obj->ehdr32->e_machine;
        obj->machine = machine;
    }

    /*  The following length_size is Not Too Significant. Only used
        one calculation, and an approximate one at that. */
    obj->length_size = obj->is_64bit ? 8 : 4;
    obj->pointer_size = obj->is_64bit ? 8 : 4;

#ifdef WIN32
    if (obj->is_64bit && machine == EM_PPC64) {
        /*  The SNC compiler generates the EM_PPC64 machine type for the
            PS3 platform, but is a 32 bits pointer size in user mode. */
        obj->pointer_size = 4;
    }
#endif /* WIN32 */

    if (obj->is_64bit && machine != EM_MIPS) {
        /*  MIPS/IRIX makes pointer size and length size 8 for -64.
            Other platforms make length 4 always. */
        /*  4 here supports 32bit-offset dwarf2, as emitted by cygnus
            tools, and the dwarfv2.1 64bit extension setting.
            This is not the same as the size-of-an-offset, which
            is 4 in 32bit dwarf and 8 in 64bit dwarf.  */
        obj->length_size = 4;
    }
    return DW_DLV_OK;
}

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.