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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : boost vulnerabilities (USN-570-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30018

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via application crash.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/570-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30018

File Name: ubuntu_USN-570-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-date-time-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-date-time1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-date-time1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-filesystem-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-filesystem1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-filesystem1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-graph-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-graph1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-graph1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-iostreams-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-iostreams1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-iostreams1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-program-options-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-program-options1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-program-options1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-python-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-python1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-python1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-regex-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-regex1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-regex1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-serialization-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-serialization1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-signals-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-signals1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-signals1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-test-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-test1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-test1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-thread-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-thread1.33.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-thread1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-wave-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libboost-wave1.34.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pyste, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172

CWE: 20

USN: 570-1