Bug 907481 (CVE-2013-0252) - CVE-2013-0252 boost: Certain invalid UTF-8 sequences accepted as valid
Summary: CVE-2013-0252 boost: Certain invalid UTF-8 sequences accepted as valid
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-0252
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 907482
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-04 14:20 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 08:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 11:00:01 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-04 14:20:03 UTC
A security flaw was found in the way UTF-8 decoder of boost, set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries, performed validation of certain UTF-8 encoded sequences. If an application, linked against boost used the UTF-8 decoding routines for input validation (and depended at the results), an attacker could use this flaw to confuse the validator into (errorneously) accepting them as valid.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7743

Upstream advisory:
[2] http://www.boost.org/users/news/boost_locale_security_notice.html

Relevant upstream patch:
[3] http://cppcms.com/files/locale/boost_locale_utf.patch

References:
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/04/1
[5] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/04/2

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-04 14:22:21 UTC
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the boost package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the boost package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16.

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This issue affects the versions of the boost package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18. Please schedule an update.

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the boost141 package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and Fedora EPEL 5.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-04 14:23:06 UTC
Created boost tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 907482]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-04 14:24:41 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of boost as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-02-23 00:53:27 UTC
boost-1.48.0-14.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-02-23 00:58:24 UTC
boost-1.50.0-5.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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