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Paper/Archive/CVE-2021-3420

CVE-2021-3420

redhat — A flaw was found in newlib in versions prior to 4.0.0.

EPSS 2%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
46
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 81.7.817 × 2016.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

A flaw was found in newlib in versions prior to 4.0.0. Improper overflow validation in the memory allocation functions mEMALIGn, pvALLOc, nano_memalign, nano_valloc, nano_pvalloc could case an integer overflow, leading to an allocation of a small buffer and then to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
newlibnewlib versions prior to 4.0.0–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

refbugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934088advisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEBF6YHWFNCBW5A2ENSQ3Z56ELF4MTREadvisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQZEUANAWBBAOC4TF5PTPJVLMUR7SFDadvisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AMK54N6UOPBFFX2YT32TWSAEFTHGSKAA