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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2677
• 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
• 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