CVE-2012-2673
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 25, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 14, 2012
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) GC_generic_malloc and (2) calloc functions in malloc.c, and the (3) GC_generic_malloc_ignore_off_page function in mallocx.c in Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC (libgc) before 7.2 make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- RHSA-2013:1500vendor-advisory
- USN-1546-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/e10c1eb9908c2774c16b3148b30d2f3823d66a9a
- FEDORA-2012-9637vendor-advisory
- http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
- [oss-security] 20120605 memory allocator upstream patchesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20120607 Re: memory allocator upstream patchesmailing-list
- MDVSA-2012:158vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0150vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/83231d0ab5ed60015797c3d1ad9056295ac3b2bb
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/ChangeLog
- FEDORA-2012-9556vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/be9df82919960214ee4b9d3313523bff44fd99e1
- RHSA-2014:0149vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/6a93f8e5bcad22137f41b6c60a1c7384baaec2b3
- 54227vdb-entry
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