Debian DSA-3654-1 : quagga - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93117

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon.

- CVE-2016-4036 Tamas Nemeth discovered that sensitive configuration files in /etc/quagga were world-readable despite containing sensitive information.

- CVE-2016-4049 Evgeny Uskov discovered that a bgpd instance handling many peers could be crashed by a malicious user when requesting a route dump.

Solution

Upgrade the quagga packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93117

File Name: debian_DSA-3654.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/26/2016

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:quagga, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4036, CVE-2016-4049

DSA: 3654

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