Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting boost package, versions [,1.80.0)
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- published29 Nov 2025
- disclosed18 Mar 2012
- creditXi Wang
Introduced: 18 Mar 2012
CVE-2012-2677 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade boost to version 1.80.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the ordered_malloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp. An attacker can perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large memory chunk size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.
Note: The remediation to this vulnerability is only available within the DEV branch of the Boost Pool repository.