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GLSA-200802-08 : Boost: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31110

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200802-08 (Boost: Denial of Service)

 Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry from the Google Security Team reported a failed assertion in file regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.hpp (CVE-2008-0171) and a NULL pointer dereference in function get_repeat_type() file basic_regex_creator.hpp (CVE-2008-0172) when processing regular expressions.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could provide specially crafted regular expressions to an application using Boost, resulting in a crash.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Boost users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200802-08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31110

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200802-08.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 2/18/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:boost, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 27325

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200802-08