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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200802-08">
+  <title>Boost: Denial of Service</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Boost, each one possibly
+    resulting in a Denial of Service.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">boost</product>
+  <announced>February 14, 2008</announced>
+  <revised>February 14, 2008: 01</revised>
+  <bug>205955</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="dev-libs/boost" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">1.34.1-r2</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">1.34.1-r2</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Boost is a set of C++ libraries, including the Boost.Regex library to
+    process regular expressions.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry from the Google Security Team reported a
+    failed assertion in file regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.hpp
+    (CVE-2008-0171) and a NULL pointer dereference in function
+    get_repeat_type() file basic_regex_creator.hpp (CVE-2008-0172) when
+    processing regular expressions.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>
+    A remote attacker could provide specially crafted regular expressions
+    to an application using Boost, resulting in a crash.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    There is no known workaround at this time.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All Boost users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2&quot;</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0171">CVE-2008-0171</uri>
+    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0172">CVE-2008-0172</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:26:57 +0000">
+    jaervosz
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:27:09 +0000">
+    jaervosz
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:51:31 +0000">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>