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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.039 (89.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Boost Pool — versions 2.0.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 (Exploit, Patch)
- kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 (mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html (vendor-advisory)
- svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04 (vendor-advisory)