Ubuntu Update for boost vulnerabilities USN-570-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-570-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5701.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for boost vulnerabilities USN-570-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : boost vulnerabilities (USN-570-1)

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 regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via application crash. Note that...