Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2677

Title: Boost Pool Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2677.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Jul 25, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.82%

Vulnerability Summary

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 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.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 1

boost 1

Reference Links

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://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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2677 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 25, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.