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ELSA-2013-0668 Moderate: Oracle Linux boost security update

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ELSA-2013-0668 Moderate: Oracle Linux boost security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/25/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Integer overflow in the ordered_malloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp in Boost Pool before 3.9 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large memory chunk size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-date-time
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-filesystem
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-graph
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-graph-mpich2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-graph-openmpi
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-iostreams
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-math
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-mpich2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-mpich2-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-mpich2-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-openmpi
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-openmpi-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-openmpi-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-program-options
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-regex
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-serialization
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-signals
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-static
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-system
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-test
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-thread
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-boost-wave

References

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