CVE-2008-0172 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0172
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Description: The get_repeat_type function in basic_regex_creator.hpp in the Boost regex library (aka Boost.Regex) in Boost 1.33 and 1.34 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and crash) via an invalid regular expression.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28545 Secunia Advisory: SA28705 Secunia Advisory: SA28511 Secunia Advisory: SA28527 Secunia Advisory: SA28943 Secunia Advisory: SA28860 Secunia Advisory: SA29323 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded BID 27325

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