1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-570-1

USN-570-1: boost vulnerabilities

Publication date

16 January 2008

Overview

boost vulnerabilities

Releases

Packages

Details

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library
did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions.
An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to
an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service
via application crash.

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library
did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions.
An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to
an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service
via application crash.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.10 gutsy libboost-regex1.34.1 –  1.34.1-2ubuntu1.1
7.04 feisty libboost-regex1.33.1 –  1.33.1-9ubuntu3.1
6.10 edgy libboost-regex1.33.1 –  1.33.1-7ubuntu1.1
6.06 dapper libboost-regex1.33.1 –  1.33.1-2ubuntu0.1

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