Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0172

Title: Boost Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0172.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jan 17, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0172: The get_repeat_type function in basic_regex_creator.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 (NULL dereference and crash) via an invalid regular expression.

Impacted Vendors

boost 1

316solutions 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28511 http://secunia.com/advisories/28527 http://secunia.com/advisories/28545 http://secunia.com/advisories/28705 http://secunia.com/advisories/28860 http://secunia.com/advisories/28943 http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 http://secunia.com/advisories/48099 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2143 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205955 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28511 http://secunia.com/advisories/28527 http://secunia.com/advisories/28545 http://secunia.com/advisories/28705 http://secunia.com/advisories/28860 http://secunia.com/advisories/28943 http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 http://secunia.com/advisories/48099 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42674 http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0063 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-08.xml http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:032 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27325 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-570-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0249 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2143 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00760.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0172 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 17, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.