Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry found that the bost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker could exploit this by sening a specially crafted regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via an application crash.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:032
https://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : boost
Date : February 1, 2008
Affected: 2007.0, 2007.1, 2008.0
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Problem Description:
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry found that the bost library did not
properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker
could exploit this by sening a specially crafted regular expression
to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service
via an application crash.
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0171
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0172
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
050747f9a2c9557d33977d9bd51184b2 2007.0/i586/libboost1-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
447ac5fc34d29669c8a21b7abd677413 2007.0/i586/libboost1-devel-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
4b4b7ff3d032516cd2f22af208ef7d3b 2007.0/i586/libboost1-examples-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
b084ed15b24c16e41ea2660732d1fa53 2007.0/i586/libboost1-static-devel-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
4b9252988703c7360d91138aa1b738b7 2007.0/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
9b983d8a118824218998792630a93368 2007.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
f975c8790f99728dd3635b0a79a2b639 2007.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-devel-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
8349cb46e64007d854902abe784278d8 2007.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-examples-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
8781b8e9cac3079e22be542dc89679e0 2007.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-static-devel-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
4b9252988703c7360d91138aa1b738b7 2007.0/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-3.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
4e2b108f19e9e77cacd23f950a287c1a 2007.1/i586/libboost1-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
953ecb0bb51516d5a860947c6ec3cca3 2007.1/i586/libboost1-devel-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
cec00f6e2461c188e12248ec1085b64a 2007.1/i586/libboost1-examples-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
7f3150b483155ba9ddc5ce9b9c6a24b1 2007.1/i586/libboost1-static-devel-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
0133bec4e45c53c26b59fe599b0c2ef3 2007.1/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
55150e1ce05e3d3385815648cd4924ba 2007.1/x86_64/lib64boost1-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
93d7474def1e122c4ddf5fab1e81dfd6 2007.1/x86_64/lib64boost1-devel-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
59dd3438007e7d383d3cbaa1b2eacb38 2007.1/x86_64/lib64boost1-examples-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
a213a0ee7cdc1b75fbbde6835a7295db 2007.1/x86_64/lib64boost1-static-devel-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
0133bec4e45c53c26b59fe599b0c2ef3 2007.1/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
e184b23843e35d7365033cc6cb45f2dd 2008.0/i586/libboost1-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
6fa2ca96cb71d8bd3e54aa2f05118017 2008.0/i586/libboost1-devel-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
aa82d51548030d03ad1e86a174013333 2008.0/i586/libboost1-examples-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
42d0e230fca8ac7b094f9d159e9d8758 2008.0/i586/libboost1-static-devel-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
e4b3da7cdfb5210d65c5b60556e9744e 2008.0/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
af70bbe3671b92f97d09e845682609ca 2008.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
3597c04eea3dea15c278cdb3f0bbcc8e 2008.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-devel-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
65468c84027dbe61a43146a82a5a76e8 2008.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-examples-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
3a6b5ed6fffb8d18358729afb1f9ebc1 2008.0/x86_64/lib64boost1-static-devel-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
e4b3da7cdfb5210d65c5b60556e9744e 2008.0/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
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