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CVE-2021-3420 - log back

CVE-2021-3420 edited at 02 Mar 2021 18:03:54
Severity	- Unknown + Medium
Remote	- Unknown + Local
Type	- Unknown + Arbitrary code execution
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.
References	+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934088 + https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa106b29a6a8a1b0df9e334704292cbc32f2d44e
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CVE-2021-3420 created at 02 Mar 2021 18:02:53