openSUSE 10 Security Update : quagga (quagga-6233)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39418

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a remote denial of service bug in quagga that can be triggered via an AS path containing ASN elements whose string representation is longer than expected. (CVE-2009-1572)

Solution

Update the affected quagga packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39418

File Name: suse_quagga-6233.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quagga-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quagga

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1572