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

http://web.archive.org/web/20100629152435/http://www.quagga.net/download/attic/quagga-0.99.9.changelog.txt

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

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