CVE-2018-5381

Description

The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 has a bug in its parsing of "Capabilities" in BGP OPEN messages, in the bgp_packet.c:bgp_capability_msg_parse function. The parser can enter an infinite loop on invalid capabilities if a Multi-Protocol capability does not have a recognized AFI/SAFI, causing a denial of service.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-siemens-spectrum-power-cve-2019-6579-patched-in-monthly-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00021.html

https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-1975.txt

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-451142.pdf

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439

http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3