CVE-2012-2673 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libgc
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9