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Ubuntu: USN-570-1 Critical: Boost Library Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The vulnerability in the Boost library may cause a denial of service on Ubuntu platforms, stemming from inadequate validation of input.
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 regu...

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security advisory denial of service software update critical risk input validation ubuntu boost library

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-570-1 January 16, 2008

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security advisory denial of service software update critical risk input validation ubuntu boost library

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