Oracle Linux 7 : quagga (ELSA-2018-0377)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 107079

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0377 :

An update for quagga is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The quagga packages contain Quagga, the free network-routing software suite that manages TCP/IP based protocols. Quagga supports the BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng protocols, and is intended to be used as a Route Server and Route Reflector.

Security Fix(es) :

* quagga: Double free vulnerability in bgpd when processing certain forms of UPDATE message allowing to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-5379)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Quagga project for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected quagga packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 107079

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-0377.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2018

Updated: 12/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga-contrib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:quagga-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5379

RHSA: 2018:0377

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