[RHSA-2012:0305-03] Low: boost security and bug fix update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Low: boost security and bug fix update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:0305-03

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0305.html

Issue date: 2012-02-21

CVE Names: CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172

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1. Summary:

 

Updated boost packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now

available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

 

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low

security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,

which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability

from the CVE links in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The boost packages provide free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source

libraries with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard

Library.

 

Invalid pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Boost regular

expression library processed certain, invalid expressions. An attacker able

to make an application using the Boost library process a specially-crafted

regular expression could cause that application to crash or, potentially,

execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the

application. (CVE-2008-0171)

 

NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Boost regular

expression library processed certain, invalid expressions. An attacker able

to make an application using the Boost library process a specially-crafted

regular expression could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2008-0172)

 

Red Hat would like to thank Will Drewry for reporting these issues.

 

This update also fixes the following bugs:

 

* Prior to this update, the construction of a regular expression object

could fail when several regular expression objects were created

simultaneously, such as in a multi-threaded program. With this update, the

object variables have been moved from the shared memory to the stack. Now,

the constructing function is thread safe. (BZ#472384)

 

* Prior to this update, header files in several Boost libraries contained

preprocessor directives that the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.4 could

not handle. This update instead uses equivalent constructs that are

standard C. (BZ#567722)

 

All users of boost are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

fix these issues.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to

use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

 

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

428316 - CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws

428320 - CVE-2008-0172 boost regular expression NULL dereference flaw

472384 - Thread-safety bug in Boost.Regex-1.33.x

567722 - g++4.4 incompatible with numeric/ublas/matrix_sparse.hpp

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-15.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-15.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/boost-1.33.1-15.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.ia64.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.ia64.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.ia64.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.ia64.rpm

 

ppc:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc.rpm

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc64.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc64.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc64.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.ppc.rpm

 

s390x:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.s390.rpm

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.s390x.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.s390.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.s390x.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.s390.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.s390x.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-debuginfo-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.i386.rpm

boost-devel-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

boost-doc-1.33.1-15.el5.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-0171.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-0172.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.

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