CVE-2008-0171

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.69%

Published

Jan 17, 2008

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Products (3)

boost · boostvulnerable

boost · boost_regex_libraryvulnerable

References (20)

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

Exploit

http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/42745

Exploit

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

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