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boost: code execution

Package(s):boost CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2677
Created:June 28, 2012 Updated:March 22, 2013
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A security flaw was found in the way ordered_malloc() routine implementation in Boost, the free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries, performed 'next-size' and 'max_size' parameters sanitization, when allocating memory. If an application, using the Boost C++ source libraries for memory allocation, was missing application-level checks for safety of 'next_size' and 'max_size' values, a remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted application-specific file (requiring runtime memory allocation it to be processed correctly) that, when opened would lead to that application crash, or, potentially arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-9818 2012-06-28
Fedora FEDORA-2012-9029 2012-07-03
Mageia MGASA-2012-0151 2012-07-10
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0668-01 2013-03-21
CentOS CESA-2013:0668 2013-03-21
Oracle ELSA-2013-0668 2013-03-22
Scientific Linux SL-boos-20130321 2013-03-21
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:065 2013-04-08

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