CVE-2008-0171
Boost.Regex Denial of Service Regular Expression Injection Vulnerability
Description
regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.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 (failed assertion and crash) via an invalid regular expression.
INFO
Published Date :
Jan. 17, 2008, 11 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:41 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28511 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28527 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28545 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28705 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28860 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28943 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48099 Added Reference http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 Added Reference http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 Added Reference http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2143 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 06, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48099 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jan. 18, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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Exploit Prediction
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2.45 }} 0.22%
score
0.90381
percentile