CVE-2019-14878 (GCVE-0-2019-14878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-03-19 15:04
Modified
2024-08-05 00:26
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
In the __d2b function of the newlib libc library, all versions prior to 3.3.0 (see newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c), Balloc is used to allocate a big integer, however no check is performed to verify if the allocation succeeded or not. Accessing _x will trigger a null pointer dereference bug in case of a memory allocation failure.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://census-labs.com/news/2020/01/31/multiple-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerabilities-in-newlib/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://census-labs.com/news/2020/01/31/multiple-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerabilities-in-newlib/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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Red Hat newlib Version: all newlib versions prior to 3.3.0
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