cvelist/2019/14xxx/CVE-2019-14878.json

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    "data_format": "MITRE",
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    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ID": "CVE-2019-14878",
        "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "vendor_name": "Red Hat",
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "newlib",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "all newlib versions prior to 3.3.0"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-476"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "url": "https://census-labs.com/news/2020/01/31/multiple-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerabilities-in-newlib/",
                "name": "https://census-labs.com/news/2020/01/31/multiple-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerabilities-in-newlib/",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM"
            }
        ]
    },
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
            }
        ]
    },
    "impact": {
        "cvss": [
            [
                {
                    "vectorString": "6.5/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "version": "3.0"
                }
            ]
        ]
    }
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