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
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i386 | boost | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-1.33.1-16.el5_9.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | boost-devel | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-devel-1.33.1-16.el5_9.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | boost-doc | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-doc-1.33.1-16.el5_9.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | boost | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-1.33.1-16.el5_9.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | boost | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-1.33.1-16.el5_9.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | boost-devel | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-devel-1.33.1-16.el5_9.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | boost-devel | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-devel-1.33.1-16.el5_9.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | boost-doc | < 1.33.1-16.el5_9 | boost-doc-1.33.1-16.el5_9.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | boost | < 1.41.0-15.el6_4 | boost-1.41.0-15.el6_4.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | boost-date-time | < 1.41.0-15.el6_4 | boost-date-time-1.41.0-15.el6_4.i686.rpm |