CVE-2019-14873 (GCVE-0-2019-14873)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-19 15:04 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:26
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Summary
In the __multadd function of the newlib libc library, prior to versions 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. This will trigger a null pointer dereference bug in case of a memory allocation failure.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Red Hat newlib Affected: all newlib versions prior to 3.3.0
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