USN-570-1: boost vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• boost -

Details

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• libboost-regex1.34.1 - 1.34.1-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• libboost-regex1.33.1 - 1.33.1-9ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• libboost-regex1.33.1 - 1.33.1-7ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libboost-regex1.33.1 - 1.33.1-2ubuntu0.1

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

References

• CVE-2008-0172
• CVE-2008-0171