Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : quagga vulnerability (USN-461-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28061

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Quagga did not correctly verify length information sent from configured peers. Remote malicious peers could send a specially crafted UPDATE message which would cause bgpd to abort, leading to a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected quagga and / or quagga-doc packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/461-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28061

File Name: ubuntu_USN-461-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1995

CWE: 20

USN: 461-1