CVE-2012-2677 Information

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.

Reference

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://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701