Debian DSA-4115-1 : quagga - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106854

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Quagga, a routing daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :

- CVE-2018-5378 It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd, does not properly bounds check data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer, if an attribute length is invalid. A configured BGP peer can take advantage of this bug to read memory from the bgpd process or cause a denial of service (daemon crash).

https://www.quagga.net/security/Quagga-2018-0543.txt

- CVE-2018-5379 It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd, can double-free memory when processing certain forms of UPDATE message, containing cluster-list and/or unknown attributes, resulting in a denial of service (bgpd daemon crash).

https://www.quagga.net/security/Quagga-2018-1114.txt

- CVE-2018-5380 It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd, does not properly handle internal BGP code-to-string conversion tables.

https://www.quagga.net/security/Quagga-2018-1550.txt

- CVE-2018-5381 It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd, can enter an infinite loop if sent an invalid OPEN message by a configured peer. A configured peer can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (bgpd daemon not responding to any other events; BGP sessions will drop and not be reestablished;
unresponsive CLI interface).

https://www.quagga.net/security/Quagga-2018-1975.txt

Solution

Upgrade the quagga packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u5.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.1-3+deb9u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5378

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5379

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5380

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5381

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/quagga

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/quagga

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/quagga

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106854

File Name: debian_DSA-4115.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2018

Updated: 12/6/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:quagga, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5378, CVE-2018-5379, CVE-2018-5380, CVE-2018-5381

DSA: 4115