Quagga < 0.99.9 BGPD Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
low Nessus Plugin ID 59795
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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 OPEN message from an explicitly configured BGP peer.
- A denial of service vulnerability can be triggered by a malformed COMMUNITY attribute from an explicitly configured BGP peer, when the daemon has debugging enabled.
Solution
Upgrade to version 0.99.9 or later.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 59795
File Name: quagga_0_99_9.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: remote
Family: Misc.
Published: 6/29/2012
Updated: 11/15/2018
Dependencies: quagga_zebra_detect.nasl
Configuration: Enable paranoid mode
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.5
Temporal Score: 2.6
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:quagga:quagga
Required KB Items: Quagga/Installed, Settings/ParanoidReport
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-4826
BID: 25634