USN-570-1: boost vulnerabilities


 
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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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audispd.conf - the audit event dispatcher configuration file DESCRIPTION
audispd.conf is the file that controls the configuration of the audit event dispatcher. The options that are available are as follows: q_depth This is a numeric value that tells how big to make the internal queue of the audit event dispatcher. A bigger queue lets it handle a flood of events better, but could hold events that are not processed when the daemon is terminated. If you get messages in syslog about events getting dropped, increase this value. The default value is 80. overflow_action This option determines how the daemon should react to overflowing its internal queue. When this happens, it means that more events are being received than it can get rid of. This error means that it is going to lose the current event its trying to dispatch. It has the following choices: ignore, syslog, suspend, single, and halt. If set to ignore, the audisp daemon does nothing. syslog means that it will issue a warning to syslog. suspend will cause the audisp daemon to stop processing events. The daemon will still be alive. The single option will cause the audisp daemon to put the computer system in single user mode. halt option will cause the audisp daemon to shutdown the computer system. priority_boost This is a non-negative number that tells the audit event dispatcher how much of a priority boost it should take. This boost is in addition to the boost provided from the audit daemon. The default is 4. No change is 0. max_restarts This is a non-negative number that tells the audit event dispatcher how many times it can try to restart a crashed plugin. The default is 10. name_format This option controls how computer node names are inserted into the audit event stream. It has the following choices: none, hostname, fqd, numeric, and user. None means that no computer name is inserted into the audit event. hostname is the name returned by the gethostname syscall. The fqd means that it takes the hostname and resolves it with dns for a fully qualified domain name of that machine. Numeric is similar to fqd except it resolves the IP address of the machine. User is an admin defined string from the name option. The default value is none. name This is the admin defined string that identifies the machine if user is given as the name_format option. SEE ALSO
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