From bb025d37803f85aa154ec1407716fb7f7abd4c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "seer-by-sentry[bot]"
 <157164994+seer-by-sentry[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 21:26:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix(gui): Prevent null pointer dereference in ScoreScreen

---
 .../Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp    | 2 +-
 .../Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp b/Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
index a217b8023c5..d7638971d89 100644
--- a/Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
+++ b/Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
@@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ void grabMultiPlayerInfo()
 	Int adder = 1; // Varible used to add on an offset to the score to make sure we don't add people to the same map
 
 	player = ThePlayerList->getLocalPlayer();
-	if (player)
+	if (player && parent)
 	{
 		const Image *image = TheMappedImageCollection->findImageByName("MutiPlayer_ScoreScreen");
 		if(image)
diff --git a/GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp b/GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
index 40ee522169d..5dd23046ac5 100644
--- a/GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
+++ b/GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/ScoreScreen.cpp
@@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ void grabMultiPlayerInfo( void )
 	Int adder = 1; // Varible used to add on an offset to the score to make sure we don't add people to the same map
 
 	player = ThePlayerList->getLocalPlayer();
-	if (player)
+	if (player && parent)
 	{
 		const Image *image = TheMappedImageCollection->findImageByName("MutiPlayer_ScoreScreen");
 		if(image)