From 61eeaca0395463b256454300d3988dd355a8bb0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Long <jeremy.long@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 07:10:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] avoid null logging statements

---
 .../src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java          | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dependency-check-cli/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java b/dependency-check-cli/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java
index 713b3cdce..4a8f28c98 100644
--- a/dependency-check-cli/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java
+++ b/dependency-check-cli/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java
@@ -203,7 +203,9 @@ public class App {
                     exitCode = -14;
                 }
                 for (Throwable e : ex.getExceptions()) {
-                    LOGGER.error(e.getMessage());
+                    if (e.getMessage() != null) {
+                        LOGGER.error(e.getMessage());
+                    }
                 }
             } finally {
                 settings.cleanup();