suse · CVE-2008-0171

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:41:28 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:29:31 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-0171 severity moderate: SUSE including 184 source package names (boost-devel-1.36.0-12.6.49, boost-devel-32bit-1.36.0-12.6.49, …), 381 product×package rows across 20 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 SP2, … (20 product lines)): Fixed 380, Known Not Affected 1.

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.

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