Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60565
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-0754 (boost)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to boost announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-0754. ChangeLog: * Wed Jan 16 2008 Petr Machata 1.34.1-7 - Fixes for boost.regex (rev 42674). References: [ 1 ] Bug #428975 - CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 Multiple boost vulnerabilities [Fedora 8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428975 [ 2 ] Bug #428316 - CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428316 [ 3 ] Bug #428320 - CVE-2008-0172 boost regular expression NULL dereference flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428320 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update boost' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-0754 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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