CVE-2008-0172 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-0172 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 353180 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:006, published Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000
TID7022102, published Sat Mar 3 09:45:41 UTC 2018

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:26:03 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 10 11:10:31 2024