CVE-2005-4895 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-4895

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

gperftools
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.1, 0.2

Timeline

Official Publish: July 25th, 2012
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.