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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60222
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-570-1 (boost)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to boost
announced via advisory USN-570-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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.

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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.10:
libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-7ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.04:
libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-9ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 7.10:
libboost-regex1.34.1 1.34.1-2ubuntu1.1

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

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-570-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-0171
BugTraq ID: 27325
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325
Bugtraq: 20080213 rPSA-2008-0063-1 boost (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032
http://secunia.com/advisories/28511
http://secunia.com/advisories/28527
http://secunia.com/advisories/28545
http://secunia.com/advisories/28705
http://secunia.com/advisories/28860
http://secunia.com/advisories/28943
http://secunia.com/advisories/29323
http://secunia.com/advisories/48099
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:006 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-0172
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