Description
The get_repeat_type function in basic_regex_creator.hpp in the Boost regex library (aka Boost.Regex) in Boost 1.33 and 1.34 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and crash) via an invalid regular expression.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48099 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28860 ↗
- http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28943 ↗
- http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2143 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28511 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28705 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28545 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28527 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 ↗
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 ↗