Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : boost (MDVSA-2008:032)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37818

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37818

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2008-032.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 4/23/2009

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: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64boost1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64boost1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64boost1-examples, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64boost1-static-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libboost1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libboost1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libboost1-examples, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libboost1-static-devel, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2007, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2007.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 27325

CWE: 20

MDVSA: 2008:032

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