Debian DSA-2316-1 : quagga - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 56394

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Synopsis

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

Description

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered several vulnerabilities in Quagga, an Internet routing daemon :

- CVE-2011-3323 A stack-based buffer overflow while decoding Link State Update packets with a malformed Inter Area Prefix LSA can cause the ospf6d process to crash or (potentially) execute arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-3324 The ospf6d process can crash while processing a Database Description packet with a crafted Link-State-Advertisement.

- CVE-2011-3325 The ospfd process can crash while processing a crafted Hello packet.

- CVE-2011-3326 The ospfd process crashes while processing Link-State-Advertisements of a type not known to Quagga.

- CVE-2011-3327 A heap-based buffer overflow while processing BGP UPDATE messages containing an Extended Communities path attribute can cause the bgpd process to crash or (potentially) execute arbitrary code.

The OSPF-related vulnerabilities require that potential attackers send packets to a vulnerable Quagga router; the packets are not distributed over OSPF. In contrast, the BGP UPDATE messages could be propagated by some routers.

Solution

Upgrade the quagga packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.10-1lenny6.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.17-2+squeeze3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56394

File Name: debian_DSA-2316.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:quagga, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326, CVE-2011-3327

BID: 49784

DSA: 2316

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