Bug 428316 (CVE-2008-0171) - CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws
Summary: CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-0171
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: 428974 428975 428976 537842 766755
Blocks: 742493
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-10 19:46 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2023-05-13 00:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-21 09:30:23 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0305 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: boost security and bug fix update 2012-02-21 07:24:46 UTC

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
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