[Secure-testing-team] Bug#688331: boost1.42: CVE-2012-2677

[aw at old-forest.org]

Package: boost1.42
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole

This is done in unstable, but not in stable up to now so:

Please see http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/

The upstream fix and a test case is available here:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/78326

(Copied from #677197)

cu

AW

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash