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CVE-2012-2677

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2677 describes an integer overflow in the ordered_malloc function within Boost Pool versions prior to 3.9. This vulnerability allows attackers to trigger memory-related issues, such as buffer overflows, by providing a large memory chunk size, leading to insufficient memory allocation. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boost:pool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boost:pool:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0389 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ceph 18.2.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ceph 18.2.2-8 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 mysql 8.0.40-4 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 8.0.40-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 mysql 8.0.41-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 8.0.40-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16855-17084Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19666-17084Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19234-17084Fixed in: 8.0.40-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17539-17084Fixed in: 8.0.40-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 8.0.40-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 8.0.40-4
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: boost-0:1.33.1-16.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: boost-0:1.41.0-15.el6_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2024-Dec/CVE-2012-2677

CVE-2012-2677

Dec 10, 2024
microsoft2012-Jul/CVE-2012-2677Moderate

Integer overflow in the ordered_malloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp in Boost Pool

Jul 2, 2012
redhatCVE-2012-2677Moderate

boost: ordered_malloc() overflow

Jun 5, 2012

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
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202105-04
svn.boost.org / trac/boost/changeset/78326
ExploitPatch
svn.boost.org / trac/boost/ticket/6701
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13