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. Reference and upstream patch: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=aa106b29a6a8a1b0df9e334704292cbc32f2d44e
Created arm-none-eabi-newlib tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1934089]
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