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GLSA-201202-02 : Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities
high Nessus Plugin ID 58081
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Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201202-02 (Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities)Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Quagga. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact :
A BGP peer could send a Route-Refresh message with specially crafted ORF record, which can cause Quagga's bgpd to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Quagga's bgpd; a BGP update AS path request with unknown AS type, or malformed AS-Pathlimit or Extended-Community attributes could lead to Denial of Service (daemon crash), an error in bgpd when handling AS_PATH attributes within UPDATE messages can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the daemon and disruption of IPv4 routing, two errors in ospf6d and ospfd can each be exploited to crash the daemon and disrupt IP routing.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All Quagga users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-misc/quagga-0.99.20'
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 58081
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201202-02.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 2/22/2012
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: 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
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:quagga
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-1674, CVE-2010-1675, CVE-2010-2948, CVE-2010-2949, CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326, CVE-2011-3327
GLSA: 201202-02