PublicCVE

CVE-2019-14872

MEDIUM6.5JSON exportCreate alert

Description

The _dtoa_r function of the newlib libc library, prior to version 3.3.0, performs multiple memory allocations without checking their return value. This could result in NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS breakdown

CVSS 3.0
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected products

  • Red Hat / newliball newlib versions prior to 3.3.0 – all newlib versions prior to 3.3.0