CVE-2005-4895

Description

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 Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-189

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