CVE-2012-2676 Information

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.

Reference

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