Will Drewry reported several flaws in boost's regular expression library. These malformed regular expressions could possibly lead to arbitrary code execution.
Public in upstream SVN, lifting embargo: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674
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'
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.
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.
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Will Drewry for reporting these issues.
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