Vulnerability in Boost Pool

CVE-2012-2677

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.

EPSS: 0.039 (89.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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