Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package boostorg/pool  (opens in a new tab)


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3.89% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BOOSTORGPOOL-13109607
  • published28 Sept 2025
  • disclosed18 Mar 2012
  • creditXi Wang

Introduced: 18 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-2677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

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.