Bug 428316 (CVE-2008-0171)

Summary:	CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bkoz, jlieskov, mpolacek, pmachata, security-response-team, vdanen
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-02-21 09:30:23 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	428974, 428975, 428976, 537842, 766755
Bug Blocks:	742493

Description Josh Bressers 2008-01-10 19:46:37 UTC

Will Drewry reported several flaws in boost's regular expression library.  These
malformed regular expressions could possibly lead to arbitrary code execution.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-16 15:17:07 UTC

Public in upstream SVN, lifting embargo:

http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-22 15:30:56 UTC

boost-1.34.1-7.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update boost'

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-03-13 07:49:06 UTC

boost-1.34.1-7.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2010-11-15 19:21:39 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of boost as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 6. This issue was addressed in boost packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via RHSA-2012:0305.

Comment 11 Murray McAllister 2012-01-19 23:59:33 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Will Drewry for reporting these issues.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 03:15:45 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0305 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0305.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 05:49:18 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0305 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0305.html