CVE-2008-0172 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html 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 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2143 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html