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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2012.0882.1
Category:SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2012:0882-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'boost' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2012:0882-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'boost' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2012:0882-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two problems have been fixed in the boost library:

* boost::pool's ordered_malloc could have overflowed when calculating the allocation size (CVE-2012-2677).
* fully qualify the boost::date_time::dst_adjustment_offsets (non security).

Security Issue reference:

* CVE-2012-2677
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Affected Software/OS:
'boost' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP2.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

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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