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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-0754 (boost)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: boost-1.34.1-7.fc8
Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:49:35 +0000
Message-ID:  <200803130752.m2D7qWWm019059@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-0754 2008-03-13 05:56:44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : boost Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.34.1 Release : 7.fc8 URL : http://www.boost.org/ Summary : The Boost C++ Libraries Description : Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. (Some of the libraries have already been proposed for inclusion in the C++ Standards Committee's upcoming C++ Standard Library Technical Report.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jan 16 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> 1.34.1-7 - Fixes for boost.regex (rev 42674). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #428975 - CVE-2008-0171 CVE-2008-0172 Multiple boost vulnerabilities [Fedora 8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428975 [ 2 ] Bug #428316 - CVE-2008-0171 boost regular expression memory corruption flaws https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428316 [ 3 ] Bug #428320 - CVE-2008-0172 boost regular expression NULL dereference flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428320 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update boost' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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