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In the __d2b function of the newlib libc library, all versions prior to 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

Published Mar 19, 2020

Description

In the __d2b function of the newlib libc library, all versions prior to 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. Accessing _x will trigger a null pointer dereference bug in case of a memory allocation failure.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Mar 19, 2020
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Aug 10, 2019
Link CVE-2019-14878
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2019-14878
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2019-14878