Vulnerability CVE-2021-3420
Published: 2021-03-05

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Newlib project -> Newlib 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934088
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEBF6YHWFNCBW5A2ENSQ3Z56ELF4MTRE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQZEUANAWBBAOC4TF5PTPJVLMUR7SFD/
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