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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200802-08 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Boost: Denial of Service |
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Date: February 14, 2008 |
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Bugs: #205955 |
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ID: 200802-08 |
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Synopsis |
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Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Boost, each one possibly |
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resulting in a Denial of Service. |
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Background |
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Boost is a set of C++ libraries, including the Boost.Regex library to |
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process regular expressions. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 dev-libs/boost < 1.34.1-r2 >= 1.34.1-r2 |
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Description |
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Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry from the Google Security Team reported a |
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failed assertion in file regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.hpp |
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(CVE-2008-0171) and a NULL pointer dereference in function |
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get_repeat_type() file basic_regex_creator.hpp (CVE-2008-0172) when |
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processing regular expressions. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could provide specially crafted regular expressions |
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to an application using Boost, resulting in a crash. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Boost users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0171 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0171 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2008-0172 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0172 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |