CVE-2012-2677
N/A
Published: July 25, 2012 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPool
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326
References (9)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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