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boost: input validation bypass

Package(s):boost1.49 CVE #(s):CVE-2013-0252
Created:February 18, 2013 Updated:October 4, 2013
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that the Boost.Locale library incorrectly validated some invalid UTF-8 sequences. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass input validation in certain applications.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1727-1 2013-02-18
Mageia MGASA-2013-0061 2013-02-21
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2448 2013-02-23
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2420 2013-02-23
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:065 2013-04-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1523-1 2013-10-04
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