CVE-2019-14878

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions newlib libc library versions prior to 3.3.0

Description The issue arises in the d2b function of the newlib libc library, where Balloc is used to allocate a big integer without verifying if the allocation was successful. This can lead to a null pointer dereference bug when accessing x in case of a memory allocation failure.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.3.0, update to version 3.3.0 or later to resolve the issue.