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security advisorysecurity issuesoftware updateSlackware 15.0: 2024-270-01 moderate: Boost package update and security fix
New boost packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] boost (SSA:2024-270-01) New boost packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/boost-1.78.0-i586-3_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Get rid of hardcoded temporary paths in the cmake files. Since these paths point to a location that an unprivileged user could create and populate with files that could be picked up during a build, it's possible this bug could be used for malicious purposes. Thanks to jmacloue. (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/boost-1.78.0-i586-3_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/boost-1.78.0-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/boost-1.86.0-i686-2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/boost-1.86.0-x86_64-2.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 15.0 package: 7480389f2789669e7a0d7c72ff247842 boost-1.78.0-i586-3_slack15.0.txz Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 66cbb6fed84a2e79a9e2db7b3ca0a2c5 boost-1.78.0-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz Slackware -current package: e884f4a39337c2ac3051b8ba349e49a1 l/boost-1.86.0-i686-2.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: daa51704f0bdbf686e7b978b298c0d70 l/boost-1.86.0-x86_64-2.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg boost-1.78.0-i586-3_slack15.0.txz +-----+ . Recent upgrades for Slackware address significant vulnerabilities and improve system robustness.. Slackware Boost Security, Software Update, Boost Package Fixes. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2024
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security advisorysecurity issueRed HatRed Hat: RHSA-2012:0305-03 Low: Boost Update Security Issue
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 [More...]. ==================================================================== 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0305.html Issue date: 2012-02-21 CVE Names: CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 ==================================================================== 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 Boostlibrary 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 (https://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: 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. 5client): Source: 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: 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-0171 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-0172 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. . The update for Red Hat's boost package resolves a pair of security vulnerabilities and defects, categorized as low severity for Enterprise Linux 5.. Red Hat Enterprise Linux,Boost Update, Security Patch, Low Severity Advisory. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2012
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