CVE-2008-0171

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Boost: 1.33, 1.34
Boost Regex Library: all versions

References

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

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