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Oracle Linux 5 : boost (ELSA-2012-0305)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68476

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0305 advisory.

 [1.33.1-15]
 - Fix bugs in parsing invalid regexps
 - Resolves: #766755

 [1.33.1-14]
 - Delete leftover .orig files after patches are successfully applied

 [1.33.1-13]
 - GCC 4.4 fixes
 - Resolves: #567722

 [1.33.1-11]
 - Add a fix for thread safety bug in boost::regex
 - Build with -fno-strict-aliasing due to the sheer amount of warnings that we get.
 - Resolves: #472384

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected boost, boost-devel and / or boost-doc packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0305.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68476

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0305.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0172

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:boost, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:boost-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:boost-doc, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 27325

RHSA: 2012:0305