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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2021-03-05T19:19:28
Updated: 2021-03-19T22:06:34
Reserved: 2021-03-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-3420
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-05T21:15:13.437
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:37:59.880
Link: CVE-2021-3420
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