Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-570-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
boost vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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