CVE-2005-4895

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/source/browse/tags/perftools-0.4/ChangeLog

References

• http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
• http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/source/browse/tags/perftools-0.4/ChangeLog

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