CVE-2019-14875

MEDIUM

newlib < 3.3.0 - Null Pointer Dereference in __multiply Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the __multiply 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. The access of _x[0] will trigger a null pointer dereference bug in case of a memory allocation failure.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0129
EPSS Percentile 66.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
newlib_project/newlib < 3.3.0
Published Mar 19, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026