Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / newlib | affected newlib versions prior to 4.0.0 |
CWE
CWE-190
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934088
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEBF6YHWFNCBW5A2ENSQ3Z56ELF4MTRE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQZEUANAWBBAOC4TF5PTPJVLMUR7SFD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AMK54N6UOPBFFX2YT32TWSAEFTHGSKAA/
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934088
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEBF6YHWFNCBW5A2ENSQ3Z56ELF4MTRE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQZEUANAWBBAOC4TF5PTPJVLMUR7SFD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AMK54N6UOPBFFX2YT32TWSAEFTHGSKAA/