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CVE-2021-3420

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.10%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-03-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2021-3420
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.10%

Original NVD 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.

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