Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0172

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-01-17 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 07:39:32
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.