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70 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200802-08">
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<title>Boost: Denial of Service</title>
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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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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">boost</product>
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<announced>February 14, 2008</announced>
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<revised>February 14, 2008: 01</revised>
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<bug>205955</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-libs/boost" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.34.1-r2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.34.1-r2</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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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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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All Boost users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0171">CVE-2008-0171</uri>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0172">CVE-2008-0172</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:26:57 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:27:09 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:51:31 +0000">
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p-y
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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