Quagga < 0.99.18 BGPD Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59789

Synopsis

The remote service may be affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the installation of Quagga's BGP daemon listening on the remote host is affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities :

- A denial of service vulnerability can be triggered by a malformed AS_PATHLIMIT path attribute. (CVE-2010-1675)

- A denial of service vulnerability can be triggered by a malformed extended communities attribute. (CVE-2010-1674)

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.99.18 or later.

See Also

https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=637

https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=638

http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7142

http://web.archive.org/web/20120121070712/http://www.quagga.net/download/quagga-0.99.18.changelog.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59789

File Name: quagga_0_99_18.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/29/2012

Updated: 11/15/2018

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:quagga:quagga

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, Quagga/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1674, CVE-2010-1675

BID: 46942, 46943