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Old 01-16-2008
USN-570-1: boost vulnerabilities
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172


Description:
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-570-1 January 16, 2008boost vulnerabilitiesCVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172===========================================================A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:Ubuntu 6.06 LTSUbuntu 6.10Ubuntu 7.04Ubuntu 7.10This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions ofKubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to thefollowing package versions:Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-2ubuntu0.1Ubuntu 6.10: libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-7ubuntu1.1Ubuntu 7.04: libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-9ubuntu3.1Ubuntu 7.10: libboost-regex1.34.1 1.34.1-2ubuntu1.1In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect thenecessary changes.Details follow:Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions.An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression toan application linked against boost and cause a denial of servicevia application crash.





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WebService::Solr::Document(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WebService::Solr::Document(3pm)

NAME

       WebService::Solr::Document - A document object

SYNOPSIS

	   my $doc = WebService::Solr::Document->new;
	   $doc->add_fields( @fields );
	   $doc->boost( 2.0 );
	   my $id = $doc->value_for( 'id' );
	   my @subjects = $doc->values_for( 'subject' );

DESCRIPTION

       This class represents a basic document object, which is basically a collection of fields.

ACCESSORS

       o   fields - an array of fields

       o   boost - a floating-point "boost" value

METHODS

   new( @fields|@fields )
       Constructs a new document object given @fields. A field can be a WebService::Solr::Field object, or a structure accepted by
       "WebService::Solr::Field->new".

   BUILDARGS( @args )
       A Moose override to allow our custom constructor.

   add_fields( @fields|@fields )
       Adds @fields to the document.

   field_names
       Returns a list of field names that are in this document.

   value_for( $name )
       Returns the first value for $name.

   values_for( $name )
       Returns all values for $name.

   to_element( )
       Serializes the object to an XML::Easy::Element object.

   to_xml( )
       Serializes the object to xml.

AUTHORS

       Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

       Kirk Beers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2008-2012 National Adult Literacy Database

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-24					   WebService::Solr::Document(3pm)