FKIE_CVE-2012-2673

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-07-25 19:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:41
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082926.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082988.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1500.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0149.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0150.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:158
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54227
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1546-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/ChangeLog
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/6a93f8e5bcad22137f41b6c60a1c7384baaec2b3Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/83231d0ab5ed60015797c3d1ad9056295ac3b2bbExploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/be9df82919960214ee4b9d3313523bff44fd99e1Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/e10c1eb9908c2774c16b3148b30d2f3823d66a9aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082926.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082988.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1500.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0149.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0150.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:158
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54227
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1546-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/ChangeLog
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/6a93f8e5bcad22137f41b6c60a1c7384baaec2b3Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/83231d0ab5ed60015797c3d1ad9056295ac3b2bbExploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/be9df82919960214ee4b9d3313523bff44fd99e1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/e10c1eb9908c2774c16b3148b30d2f3823d66a9aPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector *
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 1.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 1.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 1.5
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 1.8
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 1.9
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 2.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 2.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 2.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 2.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 2.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.5
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.6
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 3.7
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.5
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.6
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.7
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.8
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.9
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.10
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.11
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.12
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.13
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.14
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.14
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 4.14
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 5.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.3
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.4
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.5
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.6
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.7
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.8
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 6.9
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.0
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.1
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.2
boehm-demers-weiser garbage_collector 7.2

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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.