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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : quagga vulnerabilities (USN-1261-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56853

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled Link State Update messages with invalid lengths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3323)

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain IPv6 Database Description messages.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3324)

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain IPv4 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3325)

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled invalid Link State Advertisement (LSA) types. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3326)

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain BGP UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2011-3327).

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 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1261-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56853

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1261-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2011

Reference Information

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

BID: 49784

USN: 1261-1