{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-01-11T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "boost regular expression NULL dereference flaw",
    "id" : "428320",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428320"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the version of boost as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 6. This issue was addressed in boost packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via RHSA-2012:0305.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Will Drewry for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2012-02-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0305",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "boost-0:1.33.1-15.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0172\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0172" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-0172",
  "csaw" : false
}