Skip to content
CVE Tracker
Back

CVE-2012-2677

Integer overflow in the ordered_malloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp in Boost Pool before 3.9 makes it easier for context-dependent…

Medium5.0EPSS 3.9%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-2677, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
3.9% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

Loading the EPSS history…

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References (9)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

Record last updated .