Please Install the Updated Packages.

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.

boost on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/019659.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25