71259 : Quagga Extended Communities Attribute Handling NULL Dereference Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-03-22

Description

Quagga contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a NULL-pointer dereference error occurs, allowing a remote attacker to use crafted extended community attributes to crash the 'bgpd' daemon, resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.99.18 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Quagga

0.99.17

References

CVE ID: 2010-1674 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 43499 43770 43894 43956 43982 43992 44148 48106 50609
Bugtraq ID: 46942
ISS X-Force ID: 66211
Related OSVDB ID: 71258
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2011-0711
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057831.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057833.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201202-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654603
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-March/001289.html
Mail List Post: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00009.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/346
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2197
http://www.quagga.net/news2.php?y=2011&m=3&d=21#id1300723200
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16576-4c596b2a88f00/cert_XRX12-006_v1.01.pdf
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/7786951
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/7789143
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/7795766
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:058
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0406.html
RHSA-2012:1258

Tools & Filters

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Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-03-30 | Disagree?

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