Vulnerability in Nedprod Nedmalloc
CVE-2012-2675
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) CallMalloc (malloc) and (2) nedpcalloc (calloc) functions in nedmalloc (nedmalloc.c) before 1.10 beta2 make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (69.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
- github.com/ned14/nedmalloc/commit/1a759756639ab7543b650a10c2d77a0ffc7a2000 (Exploit, Patch)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 (mailing-list)
- github.com/ned14/nedmalloc/commit/2965eca30c408c13473c4146a9d47d547d288db1 (Exploit, Patch)
- github.com/ned14/nedmalloc/blob/master/Readme.html