Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11344Denial Of Service (DoS)
0.014 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.5%
boost is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists through an 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.
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| boost | eq | 1.33.1__10.el5_7.3 | |
| boost | eq | 1.41.0__11.el6 | |
| boost | eq | 1.33.1__10.el5_7.2 | |
| boost | eq | 1.33.1__10.el5 | |
| boost | eq | 1.33.1__15.el5 | |
| boost | eq | 1.41.0__11.el6_1.2 |
References
kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0668.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04
svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326
svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701
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