Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71121
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2012:0305
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2012:0305. 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. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0305.html Risk factor : Low
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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