Fedora 17 : boost-1.48.0-13.fc17 (2012-9818)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59745

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- This update fixes a bug in Boost.Pool, which could under certain circumstances overflow allocated chunk size.
This could have security implications for applications that use Boost pool without sanitizing pool parameters.

- Boost.Locale library now contains backend code, which was left out before by mistake.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected boost package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59745

File Name: fedora_2012-9818.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/28/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:fedoraproject:fedora:boost, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2677

FEDORA: 2012-9818

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