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CVE-2012-2677

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

• Boost Pool: through 1.0.0; 2.0.0

References

• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• 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
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04
• https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326
• https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701
• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html

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