CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2677
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the ordered_malloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp in Boost Pool before 3.9 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large memory chunk size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.
Affected configurations
• boost pool (<= 1.0.0)
• boost pool 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ kqueue.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 www.openwall.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 Exploit, Patch
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701 svn.boost.org
- http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ kqueue.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 www.openwall.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 Exploit, Patch
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701 svn.boost.org