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CVE-2012-2677

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Boost — Pool

CWEs

References

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