CVE-2008-0171
N/A
Published: January 17, 2008 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorBoostBoost Regex Library
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.hpp in the Boost regex library (aka Boost.Regex) in Boost 1.33 and 1.34 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion and crash) via an invalid regular expression.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html
References (21)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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