GLSA-200705-05 : Quagga: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25155

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200705-05 (Quagga: Denial of Service)

The Quagga development team reported a vulnerability in the BGP routing deamon when processing NLRI attributes inside UPDATE messages.
Impact :

A malicious peer inside a BGP area could send a specially crafted packet to a Quagga instance, possibly resulting in a crash of the Quagga daemon.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Quagga users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-misc/quagga-0.98.6-r2'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200705-05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25155

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200705-05.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/3/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:quagga, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1995

BID: 23417

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200705-05