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Vulnerability details: VCID-en18-yreb-5fez
Vulnerability ID VCID-en18-yreb-5fez
Aliases CVE-2019-14873
Summary In the __multadd function of the newlib libc library, prior to versions 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. This will trigger a null pointer dereference bug in case of a memory allocation failure.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 4.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14873
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14873
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14873
https://census-labs.com/news/2020/01/31/multiple-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerabilities-in-newlib/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14873
cpe:2.3:a:newlib_project:newlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:newlib_project:newlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2019-14873 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14873
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14873
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

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low

multiple

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none

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14873
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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physical

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required

unchanged

changed

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.59918
EPSS Score 0.00401
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T12:07:05.318087+00:00 EPSS Importer Import https://epss.cyentia.com/epss_scores-current.csv.gz 37.0.0