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CVE-2021-3420

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CVE-2021-3420

Published: Mar 5, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

newlib

affected
newlib versions prior to 4.0.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

FEDORA-2021-332fb9c796
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-267c08cc40
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-0fa2f42d3c
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA

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