Executive Summary
| Informations | |||
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| Name | CVE-2008-0172 | First vendor Publication | 2008-01-17 |
| Vendor | Cve | Last vendor Modification | 2024-11-21 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| 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. |
Original Source
| Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0172 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17492 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17492 | ||
| Title: | USN-570-1 -- boost vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library20 did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-570-1 CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 | Product(s): | boost |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27054 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27054 | ||
| Title: | RHSA-2012:0305 -- boost security and bug fix update (Low) | ||
| Description: | The boost packages provide free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source libraries with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. Invalid pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Boost regular expression library processed certain, invalid expressions. An attacker able to make an application using the Boost library process a specially-crafted regular expression could cause that application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2008-0171) NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Boost regular expression library processed certain, invalid expressions. An attacker able to make an application using the Boost library process a specially-crafted regular expression could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2008-0172) Red Hat would like to thank Will Drewry for reporting these issues. This update also fixes the following bugs: * Prior to this update, the construction of a regular expression object could fail when several regular expression objects were created simultaneously, such as in a multi-threaded program. With this update, the object variables have been moved from the shared memory to the stack. Now, the constructing function is thread safe. (BZ#472384) * Prior to this update, header files in several Boost libraries contained preprocessor directives that the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.4 could not handle. This update instead uses equivalent constructs that are standard C. (BZ#567722) All users of boost are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | RHSA-2012:0305 CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Product(s): | boost |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27436 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27436 | ||
| Title: | ELSA-2012-0305 -- boost security and bug fix update (low) | ||
| Description: | [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 | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2012-0305 CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | boost |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-02-21 | Name : RedHat Update for boost RHSA-2012:0305-03 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0305-03_boost.nasl |
| 2009-10-13 | Name : SLES10: Security update for boost File : nvt/sles10_boost.nasl |
| 2009-04-09 | Name : Mandriva Update for boost MDVSA-2008:032 (boost) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_032.nasl |
| 2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for boost vulnerabilities USN-570-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_570_1.nasl |
| 2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for boost FEDORA-2008-0754 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0754_boost_fc8.nasl |
| 2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for boost FEDORA-2008-0880 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0880_boost_fc7.nasl |
| 2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200802-08 (boost) File : nvt/glsa_200802_08.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 42791 | Boost Regex Library (Boost.Regex) basic_regex_creator.hpp get_repeat_type Fun... |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20120221_boost_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2012-02-21 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-04-23 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-032.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-03-13 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-0754.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-03-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_boost-4946.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-03-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_boost-4978.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-02-18 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200802-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-01-27 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-0880.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-01-18 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-570-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Sources (Detail)
Alert History
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