Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : quagga vulnerabilities (USN-1095-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53219

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly parsed certain malformed extended communities. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1674)

It was discovered that Quagga resets BGP sessions when encountering malformed AS_PATHLIMIT attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disrupt BGP sessions, resulting in a denial of service. This update removes AS_PATHLIMIT support from Quagga. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-1675).

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

Solution

Update the affected quagga and / or quagga-doc packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1095-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53219

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1095-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1674, CVE-2010-1675

BID: 46942, 46943

USN: 1095-1