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.
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Information
Published : 2021-03-05 21:15
Updated : 2024-02-28 18:08
NVD link : CVE-2021-3420
Mitre link : CVE-2021-3420
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-3420
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Products Affected
fedoraproject
- fedora
newlib_project
- newlib
CWE
CWE-190
Integer Overflow or Wraparound