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Boost Regular Expressions Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28511
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Release Date:
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2008-01-17
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | Boost 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0171 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0172 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Boost, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the parsing of regular expressions in boost/regex/v4/basic_regex_parser.hpp. These can be exploited to crash an application linked against the Boost library via specially crafted regular expressions.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.34.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Fixed in SVN repository.
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Will Drewry.
Original Advisory:
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674
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