Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881694
Category:	CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:	CentOS Update for boost CESA-2013:0668 centos5
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'boost'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'boost' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The boost packages provide free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source libraries with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. A flaw was found in the way the ordered_malloc() routine in Boost sanitized the 'next_size' and 'max_size' parameters when allocating memory. If an application used the Boost C++ libraries for memory allocation, and performed memory allocation based on user-supplied input, an attacker could use this flaw to crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-2677) All users of boost are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to fix this issue. Affected Software/OS: boost on CentOS 5 Solution: Please install the updated packages. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2677 FEDORA-2012-9029 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083416.html FEDORA-2012-9818 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082977.html GLSA-202105-04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-04 MDVSA-2013:065 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:065 [oss-security] 20120605 memory allocator upstream patches http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 [oss-security] 20120607 Re: memory allocator upstream patches http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6701
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