EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : quagga (EulerOS-SA-2017-1308)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104926

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the quagga package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- A denial of service flaw was found in the way the bgpd daemon in Quagga handled the processing of large BGP update messages. A remote, previously trusted attacker could potentially use this flaw to cause bgpd to terminate existing BGP sessions, thereby leading to denial of service.(CVE-2017-16227)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected quagga package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b0c8c64

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104926

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1308.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 12/1/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:quagga, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16227