CVE-2021-3420 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Newlib Project	Newlib

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:newlib_project:newlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:::::::*

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References

Link	Providers
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/AMK54N6UOPBFFX2YT32TWSAEFTHGSKAA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQZEUANAWBBAOC4TF5PTPJVLMUR7SFD/

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-03-05T19:19:28

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.747Z

Reserved: 2021-03-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3420

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-05T21:15:13.437

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:37:59.880

Link: CVE-2021-3420

Redhat

No data.

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