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HistoryMar 21, 2013 - 7:01 p.m.

boost security update

2013-03-2119:01:31
CentOS Project
lists.centos.org
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.5%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0668

The boost packages provide free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source
libraries with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard
Library.

A flaw was found in the way the ordered_malloc() routine in Boost sanitized
the ‘next_size’ and ‘max_size’ parameters when allocating memory. If an
application used the Boost C++ libraries for memory allocation, and
performed memory allocation based on user-supplied input, an attacker could
use this flaw to crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2012-2677)

All users of boost are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to fix this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/081821.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/081823.html

Affected packages:
boost
boost-date-time
boost-devel
boost-doc
boost-filesystem
boost-graph
boost-graph-mpich2
boost-graph-openmpi
boost-iostreams
boost-math
boost-mpich2
boost-mpich2-devel
boost-mpich2-python
boost-openmpi
boost-openmpi-devel
boost-openmpi-python
boost-program-options
boost-python
boost-regex
boost-serialization
boost-signals
boost-static
boost-system
boost-test
boost-thread
boost-wave

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0668

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.5%