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CVE-2012-2676

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) malloc and (2) calloc functions in Hoard before 3.9 make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows on implementing code via a large size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.

Affected products

• Emery Berger Hoard: through 3.8

References

• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
• https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard/blob/master/NEWS
• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
• https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard/blob/master/NEWS

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