CVE-2005-4895

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Multiple integer overflows in TCMalloc (tcmalloc.cc) in gperftools before 0.4 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.

Multiple integer overflows in TCMalloc (tcmalloc.cc) in gperftools before 0.4 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 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

csilvers gperftools (google-perftools)

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-25 19:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-09 04:00:00

Affected Software

csilvers gperftools (google-perftools) 0.1

0.1

csilvers gperftools (google-perftools) 0.2

0.2

References

http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/source/browse/tags/perftools-0.4/ChangeLog

http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/

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